Then... I hope I made you feel comfortable. As much as I could, at least. [He's just a young man, after all, and Elizabeth couldn't have been quite so jaded in the direction of a younger mind. She knows herself well enough to feel at least somewhat confident in her past self's aversion to scaring kids.]

Paris. [She smiles faintly. It was a place, it had been beautiful, but nothing like what she'd imagined.] I'd wanted to go to Paris since I was a little girl. See the Eiffel Tower, the cinema, the cafes, the Seine... But I didn't realize one of the most important things about traveling. [She drops the bags into the mugs and pours the hot water over them.]

Going alone can be very hard.