"I was alone. Not in a literal sense but in a sense that I saw nobody I know here. The state of alone-ness after all, often does not refer to the physical state of being alone but the state of mind when one could not find a sense of safety from the severe lack of familiarity, familiar faces, to be exact."
Favorite phrase from chapter 6 of my novel "the Unhappy Man and the Immortal Bard who was looking for Death"