We should all keep in touch, it might help if we were still able to work together to try and figure out a few of the mysteries of this place.

[Besides they knew that were able to trust one another, something that would take time to build with a new group of people that they might not be able to relate to at all.]

Yes, he was caught in a routine evaluation when he was five. Since then he hasn't really had many options for what he could do, though I think in this situation there are a lot of people who are reliant on the system that wouldn't know what to do.