Simple?

[Wan laughed, turning his body away so he could double over a for a little while and get that out of his system.]

No. No... it wasn't simple. I grew up in a city about a third of the size of this one, maybe a quarter. It was just as crowded and things were just as complicated. The cities being separate didn't make the life in them any less messed up. It was simpler, for a time, after I was banished to the wilds.

[A pause.]

I mean, after I left the city.