"... Depends where you go. Some places are wild, and there's usually some kind of... otherness to it, that makes it different. Trees growing out of telephone poles, abandoned infrastructure that makes no sense. Supposedly there's other layers to it, but I haven't seen them."

He considered. "There's cities, too, I guess. Few and far between, though. I tried to stay away from them. But I guess the biggest difference is how everything's shaped by... willpower, mostly. Belief. You don't get hungry if you aren't moving around a lot, not unless you remember you're supposed to be. You could breathe water if you made yourself believe you wouldn't drown."