"No problem." It was an easy, honest reassurance to give, and Lloyd has no problems just leaving it at that. No one should have to worry about comparing themselves to people like his genius of a friend and classmate.

"It gets about this cold in the winter where I'm from, but it gets pretty warm in the summer, too. We're close enough to the desert that that probably doesn't help." Though thankfully they never get that got. Ugh, just passing through Triet for a few days had made him feel like he was going to fry. "Man, trees half the size of the apartments? I wish I could see that." It sounds incredible.

Something about what the guy just said, though... Lloyd tilts his head, giving Jean of mixed confusion and curiosity. "What are the Walls? Why couldn't you go past them?"