I don't know whether I'd like living in a city, either. I've only been to Reykjavík for a few days.

[ There are doubtless people in Reynir's world - scholars - who would know some things about New York or LA or America. Reynir is not one of those people. So, with audible embarrassment: ]

I'm sorry. I haven't heard of any of those places.

[ And he really does sound apologetic about it. It's just bringing home to him how limited his scope of the world is, interacting with people here. There might have been a time when he would have answered Pratt's question by saying that the people where he's from are the same as people anywhere. But he's learned that that isn't the case. There are differences. It is just that working out exactly how to describe them is challenging. ]

Provincial.

[ Harsh, but accurate. ]

I grew up in a very small village where nothing much happened. Nothing awful like... that cult, but nothing really exciting, either. Anyone who has ambitions or wants to do anything different at all leaves for the military, if they can, or to get a job in the city.