[He returns the smile.] I... Heh. Thank you, Miss Sophie.

In the air. In my world, the surface of the planet is covered in poison. We've always lived on land constructed around the Tower. The new land was the same way. It just... wasn't entirely real, and it definitely wasn't the land we'd hoped for anyway. The only people on it were figments of Luca's imagination, and the only places were... warped. [He frowns. It still kind of hurts to remember, a little.] She was confused, angry and hurt. So that's how things became.

[He sighs, hoping any of that made some amount of sense to anyone who doesn't live in Metafalss.]