Anyone would be apprehensive when getting an answer like that. Also, I'm not apprehensive.

[ lmao ]

So. My secret standing aside, [ he's still not a knower... ] I wouldn't say that I'm comparing our situation to these cars. At least not one-to-one. But I think it gives us an idea of what kind of place this is. Why all the luxury just to let it rot down here? Even the most cautious bigwigs back home would be parading these things around for self-satisfaction, if nothing else.

[ And here, in the dim chaos of their displacement, where car horns and music are intermittently blasting, people are crawling out of (or into...) backseats, and constant engine reverb sounds off concrete, it's all just decay. More than any wasteland he's been in, where unapologetic life has shattered things into an earned disuse. ]

Seems to me like we're not here for our own benefit. [ He lifts his hand to swivel his be-watched wrist around. ] No matter what this thing says. But then, looking at all this down here... it doesn't exactly yield a good picture of our hosts, either.