[ Ivan nodded, listening intently, his head resting in his hand. He could only imagine what it would be like to live in a place like that, where it was all real and naturally occurring. With real trees, skies, and fish.]

Somewhere with an atmosphere, then. I also lived in a city, but there were never things like this there.

[ He says it so casually that it seemed like a conversation he had many times in the past. All the children used to end up on different worlds all the time. His 'best friend' came from an ocean world. All sorts of things happened. ]

Only the ... school I went to had things like this, but it was all synthetic there.