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"Ah, so that's where you come from...It might be an interesting goal to go there once the Sovereign stop stinking up the place, huh?" Han-jae led Piras out the door and continued to talk on their way down the hallway. "Yeah, I miss both places- when it was still a working city Old Seoul was pretty nice. Street markets, people everywhere, tall buildings....I guess they looked even taller to a kid." Shame the government had outsourced critical foundation parts for the tower to the lowest bidder; admittedly, the resulting scandal had changed how the Ministers did things rather drastically, but that hadn't really helped the people who weren't evacuated before an entire residential floor collapsed. Seoul Tower had been made livable again, but he hadn't been back since and the place seemed to be mostly used as a military beachhead these days anyway. "Shanghai, well, I've only seen the tower, although people there keep telling me how great the harbor down below used to be and how big the city was. The tower's impressive in its own right, though." Han-jae shrugged. "I can get my sister to take some pictures for you if you'd like."

Mentioning Ha-in sometimes got derisive reactions from people, so he explained somewhat defensively. "Yes, I have actually got a sister, not making her up. She sometimes gets to send me mail through the tablet network, although I haven't actually spoken to her in a while."