[ ‘Marketplace’ helps put things into perspective for her, even if the marketplaces Lux’s used to are lined with wooden stalls and tents, not brick-and-mortar stores. ]

Maybe my mother would’ve preferred I spend my time here, then.

[ Better she be shopping than running away from home every other night, right? She gives the floor a wry smile. ]

I’m from Demacia—er, more formally, the Kingdom of Demacia. There aren’t any malls there. Not in the Citadel, and definitely not out in the highlands I grew up in.

I take it you had malls, though, right?