Steph turns as far as she can away from him without hurting herself or moving the rest of her body. She is not going to talk about living fast, dying young, gang members being tortured, or anything on those lines. She wasn't.

"I'm from Gotham," she said instead, as though this explained everything. "Of course I've seen a lot. I can name five classmates I know of who were killed when we were in school together, and twenty more whose family members did. We had an earthquake once and the government declared us 'not worth the trouble'. Surviving is a matter of luck or money, and we never had much money."