Smith changed form to match the dominant species of the planet, leaving behind still-mobile and at least partially sentient Husks. With Light temporarily dormant, he adopted the form of a Victorian gentleman, living in the mansion called Gabriel Chase in Perivale, which had a cellar in which Light's ship resided. By 1883, Smith was the owner of Gabriel Chase, and with Mrs Pritchard and his "ward" Gwendoline, servant Nimrod and houseguest/prisoner Redvers Fenn-Cooper (whom he trained as an assassin), presided over a distorted version of a well-to-do 19th century household.