"Not a lot of people, actually," he says. "We're only a few dozen over a hundred. People are pretty spread out, but we all keep in contact with commnicators. Everyone has one when they arrive. You should have one, too." The city's population really is minuscule when compared to the numbers of a normal city. A person could claim an entire block for theirself and still be without neighbors.

"And, no, it's not like the buildings fall out of the sky on top of our heads," he says with a laugh. "You'll just find them, standing in places that were empty yesterday. They'll never appear where someone already is. Somtime places can change around us, but no one gets hurt." And it wasn't like Nautilus would deliberately endanger people so carelessly. Which then begs the question. How is he going to explain the city being alive? Some people who have lived here for weeks or months still don't understand it. Maybe he can open the topic with a discussion about souls. Or gods.

Or he could just say "magic" again.