"It's a cross between the northern Atlantic coast in America and some forests in Bavaria." He closes his eyes, comfortable for the moment, relaxed in a way he hadn't realized he wasn't until now. "The bones of the house are Frank Lloyd Wright, but I wanted something smaller. More secure."

He knows a lot of people here choose to recreate familiar locations, so he can understand the question. But for his own purposes? He'd never seen the point.

"I thought it would be too weird making a place I'd lived before but never seeing the people who were there with me. So then I thought hey, this might be my only chance to live somewhere really fancy, why not make up something like that?"