"You are not mistaken." Piotr smiled. He was glad Clarice was doing well in the city, so far in the future from what she was used to. "I like it here quite well. But I have come from a place where the world was dying around us, and we had very little. Before that, I was a test experiment for aliens. And before that, I was dead. So, I have definitely moved up in the world."
His humor was a little dark, he supposed, but it was difficult to not joke about terrible things so far after the fact.
"The City born are quite different, yes. Much about them is not... normal. Not quite there. I am sure that you are not the only one testing theories about them."