[clarke does laugh slightly at his joke while she moves to stand up because normal is something that is such a foreign concept for them] You know what I mean— I wasn't referring to the values of the city, more like everything else outside of that.

[because if you take away that aspect of how this society operates, it seems just like a normal city where they can do normal things] Normal compared to the alternative back home. [will she be okay? she kind of doubts it because it still terrifies her knowing that outside of this place that going back she will be faced with the being on her own and the loneliness that comes along with it while she tries to survive what's left of the world for at least six years]