"Sociable is an understatement, my dear," She replies breezily, apparently happy to move onto a realm of conversation where she feels much more comfortable, "I adore it. Without other people I would likely wither away to nothing! Tragic, don't you think?"

Her smile glints and then she pauses to consider his question.

"Well. It's certainly an adventure, but also fascinating - no one from the city seems to have known anything about this place or even had a hint that this place existed, but they've clearly been down here for ages. So how long have they lived down here? Why did they leave the surface in the first place? There's quite a lot going on that we haven't ferreted out and it just makes me curious."