"It helps if you don't have some notion stuck in your head of what the same is," Atton said. "I don't have a Toronto the way you do. That helped."

Just a string of places he'd visited and then left.

"Anyway, hey, it could've been worse. You didn't go running at the first sign of an alien the first time I dragged you here, you actually ate the nerf steak, a little weirded-out about the menu isn't going to crack your stoic streak."