You're welcome! (We had a lot of thoughts... some of this is going to make it into our worldbuilding pages, so thank you for the chance to hash this out!)

Rémi would actually be faintly impressed despite himself at this offer, which he would consider quite generous — all the more-so considering the fact that the newcomers arrived with virtually nothing to their names. Steve will get one (1) nod of faint respect, and Rémi is going to be keeping an eye out for him in the future...