"Over a thousand years. It's 3014 in my time." Sparks even had part of that future technology in the form of a cyborg horse that Aya should meet sometime soon.

"Meanwhile, time keeps tickin' on by there while we're stuck here." He waves a hand enthusiastically at the city. "I mean, it ain't a bad place to live when things ain't goin' totally bonkers. Or when the apocalypse ain't looming in the horizon. Or when the moogles are on strike for the hundredth time in a month."