Astoria has said herself that she needs our assistance in saving other worlds. I believe she is caught here, in this sanctuary of sorts, and is unable to leave.

[She talks as she serves up her tea and his coffee.]

She was quite apologetic in her conversation with me when we first arrived. It gave me the feeling that if she could, she would wish to handle these problems on her own but could not and sought what help she saw as available to her.