"It would be sorta weird to be called an earthling, is all."

"Well but you are one."

"Well yeah," she agrees. "But still weird. And utilities just working is pretty weird, though I guess that's from a standpoint where I'm used to utilities not just working."

"It is pretty weird, even to us, things not having a source is kinda bizarre, but it's weird in the same way, I don't know, buildings being imported is weird? It's normal weird."

"While that's just plain 'impossible' weird 'but apparently happens', to me."

Helpless shrug. "The City is the City is the City."

"Yeah." Sigh.

Rachel keeps eating.

Food! "But hey, at least water and stuff are infinite, right?"

"Yeah! Which is good."

Pause. "Do animals just appear here, then, like people and buildings?"

"Yeah. It's really just buildings—or, I guess, places, parks and such appear, too, and everything in or on them comes with."

"Do you have bits of national parks and stuff, too, or do you mean just small city parks?"

"Probably have bits of those in the Outlands."

"… Do people live in most of the area up to where the city starts getting fuzzy, or are the Outlands, like, really huge?"

"The Outlands are really, really huge. Like, several times as large as the city."

"I… don't actually have a proper idea of how big the city is," admits Rachel. "But that sounds pretty big, yeah."

"I don't know how big it is either," she admits. "But, like, there's a few million people?"

"– Okay, that's pretty big."

"Yeah, it is. There's lots of imports but, well. Imports have to have some fun, too, so lots of natives."

Rachel raises her eyebrows a bit. "Yeah."

"I think we probably outnumber imports, at this point."

"Population growth, woo."

"Ssso are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm not panicking or freaking out," she says, shrugging. "I'm not totally sure what my reaction is except 'what do I do with my life' and 'I'm sure I'll find something', at this stage."

"I mean you're not... visibly... panicking or freaking out, but you're kinda. Low-key, ah... low-key?"

"Sorta like I'm trying to keep calm on purpose?"