Considering that Kitty has never been to school and is kind of a professional criminal at this point, they could hi5 here. If it was a topic to talk about among strangers. Or ever.

"And that is why I have to keep it. It's harder to replace than most other things, and I'm too young for people to give me work directly, so I couldn't buy a new one even if I knew the right people for it." And she doesn't have her team to accept jobs on her behalf here. Nor... do the kind of jobs that she tends to do to exist, at least not nearly as close to the surface as what she's used to.