[ Thinking on it, she's not surprised he guesses right both times. There's a great deal the pair have in common, she's realizing, and when she comes to stand outside a small shop with decadent looking dresses on display in it's windows, she wonders if Kim has the same problem she has in Tamamo. It's a land that wears it's opulence like you might wear layers in the winter. A desperate necessity. ]

Yeah. Uh, to both. [ She clarifies quickly. ] The slums used to be their own city with neighborhoods and suburbs, everything that you need to make up a city. Y'know, the works. When Shinra decided to build around the reactors, they just... decided to do it over us. People who could afford it went topside, and everyone else... [ They were too poor. They had to stay behind, with all the junk from up top. Beneath the steel boat of Shinra. ] There's people who have gone their whole lives without ever seeing the open sky.

[ Children, mostly. She thinks of Marlene, who must have spent her entire life under the steel sky. ]

Well, we get by. [ Fingers lacing together in front of her, the smile she wears is empathetic. ] I bet you already guessed all that, though. We're here, at least. Sorry for talking so much, my mom calls her little chatterbox!