Ah, rust. [The metallic taste.] It was the same for me.

The building here are all very old, but it's more stone than metal and rust... it's not much to go on but we should make note of it. [Somewhere, somehow. Despite the fact they don't need the devices to communicate right now, he pulls his out and starts navigating the menus, like there might be some notepad feature or something.]

Maybe iron-heavy soil... dust... thick enough to cloud vision. And the locals insisted on cleaning us of it.