Nova's quiet for a moment, and then: "You'll show me how?"

"Sure! Maybe it's easier if you start with just cuddling them, since you're new to this? That's what I'm doing with Mr. Huggy right now."

"Do they all have names?" Nova asks, hand hovering before he picks up a bear and hugs it.

"Yeah, but some of them change names sometimes. That's Arcty, right now. Her fur-yarn is soft and thick and fluffy because animal bears used to live in cold places!"

"She is very soft," Nova agrees, petting Arcty as he hugs her.

"When I tell stories about her, she usually goes on a ship to try to find new places that are cold, like a whole planet of ice or ice cream or liquid helium, because her home planet is getting too warm to live on. I think real bears also have fingernails and teeth that are sharp and not soft, but then we couldn't play with them, so she's soft all over instead."

"That's really cool!"