It takes him a second to parse what she means, mostly because his head is foggy. He knows Seven is big - it has to be for all that lumber - but the exact geography is lost on him. He's pretty sure it's designed that way, so no one District knows anything useful about another besides what they produce. Contact is minimized, grasp of territory certainly is too.

"You live by the ocean?" That's his takeaway.

He used to live near the water, but Victor's Village is far more inland. Now it's just streams or ponds, a large chunk of them man made for irrigation.