"I'd never even seen stars before I wound up in Steelport. That was maybe the only good thing that happened in that place: the first time I happened to look out a window and realized the stars were visible."
It was another way of saying he was only vaguely aware of the various things Declan mentioned. Even if they'd been properly oriented, he wouldn't have known what 'Ophiuchus' even looked like. Still, he was back at a point where it was easy to talk again, so he engaged the conversation.
"Back home, construction just gets built up higher and higher, so there's nowhere a normal person can go to really see the sky. Either all you see is buildings overhead, or there's too much smog and light pollution, things like that. There might not be any war more significant than gang turf wars in the Old Resident District, but it doesn't have any really beautiful places like you've shown me so far. Maybe Platinum Jail does, but no one like me would ever get to go in there."
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It was another way of saying he was only vaguely aware of the various things Declan mentioned. Even if they'd been properly oriented, he wouldn't have known what 'Ophiuchus' even looked like. Still, he was back at a point where it was easy to talk again, so he engaged the conversation.
"Back home, construction just gets built up higher and higher, so there's nowhere a normal person can go to really see the sky. Either all you see is buildings overhead, or there's too much smog and light pollution, things like that. There might not be any war more significant than gang turf wars in the Old Resident District, but it doesn't have any really beautiful places like you've shown me so far. Maybe Platinum Jail does, but no one like me would ever get to go in there."