Ash nodded agreement to Bear. "All the new friends to make, too," he added. "To think, 8.3 million people in New York, and I have only even known my own family!"
"You will remember your stories," Elaine said. Fairy tales were in part instructions on how to live in society, and a wariness of strangers was one of the things taught therein. "And you will be polite and considerate and kind, and you will be just fine."