"Oh dear." He has to pause to think about this. From here, or in general? He could go on for hours about which historical figures he would like to be trapped on an island with, but — no, he's not going to start nerding out. And from Baedal, well. He likes most of the cohort, but even his friends outside of it are largely not, actually, his friends. He's always holding people at arm's length.

And no one he knows has a namesign except the one they made up for Penelope, which is. Not polite, to say the least.

I think I'd pick five strangers and hope for a Gilligan's Island.