If he needs a minute to think they can give him a minute. Eventually they ask softly, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing."

"I'm going to assume that's your culture's way of telling me to shut up. Want to go fly kites on the kickball field?"

"I don't know how."

"I can teach you or we can do something different."

"Just walking is fine."

"Okay."

Walking walking walking. There's a little paved area at the edge of the part with some sports equipment. Another genderless person is selling ice cream from a cart; some kids are playing a game with a melon-sized rubber ball and a grid of four large squares on the ground involving bouncing the ball and throwing it and yelling seemingly random words.

It's weird that the clothes are all unisex, makes it hard to tell people apart.

He makes carefully sure his eyes do not linger on the ice cream.

"I'm thinking of getting an ice cream; want me to get you one too?"

"...sure, thank you."

It's just a little mobile freezer cart, so they only have six flavors. "Chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter, strawberry, cookie dough, or mint?"

"Strawberry."

Tazz orders him a strawberry and themself a cookie dough. They come in bowls made of sugary cracker material with disposable plastic spoons. 

"...is the bowl meant to be eaten?"

"You can eat it but some people don't; the ice cream is the good bit."

...Kyeo eats his ice cream, kind of quickly, and then eats the bowl.

"Wow, if I ate that fast I would get so much coldmouthpain," says Tazz, who isn't even halfway done.

Oh, is that what that is. He shrugs.

Tazz looks like they're restraining themself from saying something. They keep eating their ice cream.

Kyeo watches the birds. They don't have all these kinds on Ibyabek.

Someone shows up with a little bag of birdseed and scatters it around her feet and takes pictures of the resulting crowd and leaves when it disperses. A couple people at the edge of the pond start flying kites.

Tazz finishes their ice cream and asks, "So, what do you think you most need to be able to have a good life in this world? I've shown you the important things that everyone needs, but each person is different and your circumstances are more different than usual. So you're even more than usual the expert on your own preferences."

"I don't know."

"Time will probably help some, just because you'll have fewer surprises every week and you'll be able to decide what to learn based on what's interesting instead of what's getting thrown at you. Meeting more people might help too, once you're comfortable with that, just for a better sense of what your options are."