"I hope so too," he said. "A girl your age shouldn't have to deal with things like that. No one should." Which he supposed, was why they were there; to make sure others didn't need to. But he still didn't know why it was him who was here, and not... literally anyone else in his family.

"I guess..." He didn't sound very certain. "That's things that anyone could do, though. Isn't it our job to do bigger things? I mean, in stories you don't get swept away to a distant land just to do normal chores." Most of what he did on the train notwithstanding.