[That's... absolutely true, isn't it. It's a little sad that the two of them had bonded over shared hardship, but it did get the harder topics out of the way. Now it was just hard to find something else to talk about.]

Well, I'm fairly certain you don't come from a flying city. I think I've got that one covered. Columbia is a collection of structures suspended in a... grouping, I suppose. They stay above the clouds due to the 'Lutece Field' generated by machine. Mr. Lutece's sister developed the technology.