"... Maybe. But that doesn't mean you're wrong."

Not if the interactions Nita had observed in the past month alone proved anything.

There were kids here that the adults on the train would do anything to protect - and other kids and 'kids', too, for that matter.

Some were good even when they thought or just pretended otherwise. Or assumed to be otherwise.

"If's life's idealistic, it's gonna be because we make it that way."