No, [she says, tone soft as she answers that. Clarke doesn't want it to seem like a denial, and she's conscious of that fact at the moment. It's hard to try to wrap her head around this world. What if her world was this one, but completely altered?]

There was a war, [she adds. There's a hint of uncertainty, eyebrows drawing together. El gives them leeway to have a freedom of passing as being educated enough in this world, but basic, common historical facts escape her. The development of the megacities? That's part of it.] I believe it led to some remapping, some restructuring. There's only one government now, and the ... jurisdictions are split up into over a hundred large cities. New Amsterdam is one of them.