Alek shakes his head in encouragement.

"You'll get the hang of it. I can't promise you it's going to be easy. In a lot of ways, I still haven't learned the rules myself. But if it helps, that means you won't be learning them alone," he says. They aren't words he would've come up with on his own - but his older brother said them to him once, and they stayed with him.

He doesn't know if it'll help Cora, but he can hope.