"What moment? I have no idea what you're talking about." He reached down through the bushes so she could grab his hand if she chose. He didn't know her well enough to plan to hold it over her head later. But if he ever actually got to know her? All bets were off.

"This place from you?" He asked curiously. He didn't recognize all the sounds, but he definitely recognized it as a hub of life. Which made the emptiness unnerving. The normally hated most about cities cities was a pressure or... a kind of buzz that gave him a headache. The absence of it was just as strange as the lack of activity.