No, no, nothing like that. Just a couple of houseplants.
[ To have a garden would be a luxury -- and one Kim doesn't have time for. But he's quite fond of the ones he actually has the time for. One had been a housewarming gift from when he was young and moving into his own place for the first time, and while the friendship around it had died, the plant still hasn't. It's silly, but it makes him a little sad to have left it behind. He hopes someone's watering it.
The way she describes her home, however, is... troubling. When Kim had thought about a place without much in the way of vegetation, he was considering his own home, blocks of square concrete and asphalt, an area too centralized to the city to have natural greenery and too financially depressed for anyone to bother making artificial installments beyond a pathetic little park or two. But they have fresh air (well, for a given value of fresh) and sunlight. ]
You mean to say that the poor have been displaced to live underground? [ That must take incredible technology. And incredible poverty. The two tend to coexist. He tries to imagine it. ] Or... was Topside simply built on top of the already existing city?
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[ To have a garden would be a luxury -- and one Kim doesn't have time for. But he's quite fond of the ones he actually has the time for. One had been a housewarming gift from when he was young and moving into his own place for the first time, and while the friendship around it had died, the plant still hasn't. It's silly, but it makes him a little sad to have left it behind. He hopes someone's watering it.
The way she describes her home, however, is... troubling. When Kim had thought about a place without much in the way of vegetation, he was considering his own home, blocks of square concrete and asphalt, an area too centralized to the city to have natural greenery and too financially depressed for anyone to bother making artificial installments beyond a pathetic little park or two. But they have fresh air (well, for a given value of fresh) and sunlight. ]
You mean to say that the poor have been displaced to live underground? [ That must take incredible technology. And incredible poverty. The two tend to coexist. He tries to imagine it. ] Or... was Topside simply built on top of the already existing city?