Vash, meanwhile, has his hands clamped tightly over his ears, as though that'll make the pressure feeling stop. It doesn't, but he can't just sit there and let his head feel like it's getting vibrated.

It's not the other city. It's the destroyed one, the place he's most familiar with. Shardik might be disappointed, but Vash breathes a sigh of relief. That's what's supposed to be there! July, but crossed out, just like on the maps.

Huh. There's a question!

"How'd it get smashed up like that anyway, do you know?" Now that he's seen what July in its prime looked like, he's got a better appreciation for how big a disaster it must have been to wreck the place. Was it just time, an abandoned city giving in to the wind and sand? Or was there an earthquake, maybe? "It was such a big city!"