"Zora's Domain, you mean?" he asked, then shrugged when she nodded. "It's mostly untouched," he said. "The river between Inogo Bridge and the Domain itself is infested with monsters, but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. Ruta acting up recently caused more damage than the Calamity itself did."
He almost added 'at least in terms of physical damage,' but quickly caught himself. No, not going to do that, she wants the conversation to be lighter, and he could stand a break from misery-causing topics himself.
Although something else did occur to him about the Domain that had nothing to do with anything particularly deep and serious, but needed to be said anyway. "Just so you know, the shrine in the Domain has hip-deep water between the travel gate and the rest of the place, so you're going to have to put up with being picked up and carried out of there, unless you're wanting to go around half-soaked."
No, he's not preemptively amused at her indignation that's going to cause, not him! There's no smile to see, he's turning over the food to cook on the other side, totally serious, mmhmm yup.