"Well, no more empire. That fell long before my time. We're a bunch of city-states, now." She considers what to tell him. Knowledge is power, and Nazca knows that quite well. On the other hand, he seems more generally interested; she's known some captains, and that would fit with a certain stripe of them. Some get ships because they want to see things far and wide, after all.

"Camorr, where I'm from, is built on a series of little rivers and canals. You get around the city on small boats as often as on your feet. There are huge towers built before humans ever came there. They're made of something we call Elderglass. Very strong, but it catches the sunlight. Nothing like it here."