[It seems so obvious he presumed it was rhetorical, but if Ash insists. One hand draws from the water to begin enumerating with a finger for each.]

Classes you have to attend for attendance, social obligations for this new side of your life, social maintenance with the street urchin lifestyle you maintain as double duty, legal matters relating to the two sides of that life, the similar mirror of obligations and duties at the higher level which the Monsieur had handled until his death...


[At five, he pauses, to see if Ash would like him to keep going. He does have another hand.]