prompt 2:

Considering Arnošt is from a small-ish European country, even if he is just a depth defenseman not very actively relied on by the team he plays for, in Czechia, that still means you are the one who "made it". Moving around in Manhattan, with trillion people of all sorts of interesting qualities, you sort of meld into the crowd and only the most pasionate of fans actually manage to recognize and talk to you, while in Czechia, it's a bunch of kids so excited to see you, clubs asking to show up to their practice, ad campaigns hoping to secure your likeness to sell whatever they are selling...Let's just say, Arnošt isn't very fond of all the attention and kinda tries to dodge coming back home, even though he understands why it's happening and feels kinda bad for doing so. Manhattan just feels more anonymous, and that's sometimes nice when you just want to live your life instead of it all revolving around you.