Arcade's smile changes, becomes something more genuine now. "There's nothing wrong with you, Neil. You're an intelligent, innovative young man who has a lot of opportunities in front of him. I know--"

From Alex, from others, from general learning.

"--That the east is a dying landscape. To come from that probably drills the same thing into your head. But you're here now. And this is anything but dying. Even when you feel like you're in stasis--"

When life drops the bottom out from under you, once, twice, and you lose everything, anything that mattered.

"--This place allows you to grow. To keep going. You're not dead yet."

Neither am I.

"And you still have a lot to learn."