"I'd hate to impose. Inviting myself to your table and then drinking your tea? How rude of me," he says with a smile. "But you did offer - and I'm parched." He takes one of the cups and pours himself a measure of the tea. "You come from a place called Yellow Comet?" he asks, genuinely curious. An odd name - but then, he supposes that New York is an odd name too. What's so new about it, and how different is it from Old York?