"No," Fang admitted with a soft snort of amusement.

It wasn't a mean little laugh, she had just been waiting for a question like that. She looked down at her hands for a moment and then turned her attention to the fire. She gazed into it for a long, quiet moment. She didn't even know what to expect from a desert city. She'd seen deserts, just small ones on the edge of scrubland, but had only heard about the large, sprawling expanses of sand in the stories of those who had travelled much further afield than she had.

"All I know about it is what you three have told me," she added.