[This is all well and good despite Damian not following most of it. He isn't an idiot, but there's a few things he just doesn't recognize. Columbia, for one. Comstock, the Boxer Rebellion, Peking. Peking, China? Beijing? Washington, a man? Washington, a state? Washington, a capital?

Anyway, as hilarious as it is, Damian of course understands quantum levitation out of the whole equation.] I see.

[Interesting. Why give a girl you locked in a tower access to knowledge? History, no less, rather than propaganda? Or maybe--this is the propaganda. How could he know whether what she says is the truth or a lie, and not for her own ignorance. That's merely all she knew.]

If you father had this kind of political power--enough to build a city in the sky--why would he keep you locked in a tower?