[ vash blinks, and then realization strikes like lightning in his eyes. ]

Oh-- not... um! [ he squints before he says hesitantly: ] Earthworms?

They're bigger than that. Sometimes the length of... [ he glances down at himself, struggling to find an accurate comparison, before finally holding up his prosthetic as reference. ] -- my forearm. But there's Grand Worms, too. They're...

[ he nods at the largest building they can see from where they sit and stand. ]

Bigger than that. Could have that for lunch, actually.

I got swallowed by one, once. Well-- no, twice, actually. The second time was on purpose.

[ heh. he bites into another wedge of meat. he licks the excess shine of whatever they'd basted the boar with off his upper lip before answering. ]

Solvunn. You're Free Cities, aren't you?