"True. The accent would give you away even if I couldn't find you visually, and the same can be said for me, probably, though SHIELD gave me list of places in New York with large Russian communities." He's not ready to go to any of those places, not yet. It's too much. But maybe in a month or two, with Dolemeck and some poor teacher dragged along, he might be willing to try, if only once.

"You make me want to learn new things. You've taught yourself history and sewing, and those aren't easy things. So, maybe, I can learn to cook. It might be hard without any recipes to read, though. My parents and grandparents just cooked out of memory and looked at things to guess how much of different ingredients they needed."

He still wants to hide away, a little. But if he takes it little by little and doesn't think of things as immense and terrifying as the far future or what he'll do with his life ultimately, then he can manage.