It was a pattern to continue like this, all in efforts to arrive at the park: which takes longer, waiting for people to clear out enough to the peripherals that he can bring them both back across that street into the taller trees in the wooded section of the park. There's an open section that he leads them toward, because he'd noticed it when on delivery.

That's right. Most his knowledge of the city is from his fake-life's job for earning money.

"Here, if you can curl up here, just sleep. There's a few statues that move and make sounds in another park near here, if we pretend you're one of those, it could work!"

Statues that moved? Back home that meant being filled with spiritual energy and gaining its own awareness, but here it was a matter of construction. Technological construction.