"Well, I guess I want to know what it was like to live there. I'd always heard that it was..." she pauses to think. "...strict, lots of slavery, and just all around not a pleasant place to be. Granted, I've only ever heard about it from Aesthians, so there's likely a lot of bias going on there, but... I'm still curious."
"And you're-- no offense meant-- older, so I'm sure you've lived there long enough to get an idea of what it was like. My parents were young when they left the country, so..."