"Yeah."

Rachel eats a bit more of her Burger™ (or whatever).

(It's a Burger Buffet Bonanza™ Cheeseburger.)

"What are you planning to do after you leave?"

"I'm not sure," she says. "I wasn't expecting to have to get a job so early, and I still don't know a huge amount about what it's like out there, how it differs."

"I guess there's no way I could even explain, is there? It's always the things that we forget that we forget."

Pause. "You just mean you take things for granted, forget how they're different?"

"No, I mean I was born here and don't know Earth so all the things I'd tell you wouldn't be all the things you'd want to be told because we wouldn't remember what things are really important or even come up with a good list."

"Right."

"Like the gravity thing, bet most people don't know about it."

"Most people here, you mean, don't know about gravity being heavy masses? Or they don't know that gravity is literally 'down'?"

"Most people born here don't know that gravity is a force between matter that's proportional to their mass and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, they think gravity is just the thing that pulls down."

"Huh." Pause. "Do you not have proper schools here? I mean, not that a lot of people would know it like that at home, but they'd know it's 'because big things pull things towards them', or something like that, I think?"

"...define 'proper'?"

"… Like, state schooling. Where you can go and learn stuff. In a systematized way. From state-licensed teachers or whatever."

"Oh, public school is like that. There's private school, though, which is online."

"… How long have you had the internet for?"

"As long as you have. It was copied over."

"… All the components of it?"

"Components of it at the time, it grew separately since then. Kinda."

"And people just tried to maintain compatibility with other devices? At least, I'm assuming they did, if they modified it and it still works with new things."

"No, the City just kinda—enforces it. Everything just works. It's like plumbing and electricity, the water and power don't really come from anywhere, and the whole system loops around itself."

"Oh, right, the weird utilities that just work." Sigh. "Better than them not working, but it's bizarre."

"Most earthlings seem to think so, yeah."

"… Is earthlings a common term or was that, like, a joke?"

"It was a joke. Standard term is 'import.'"