He leans forward to watch her draw in the dirt, noting the overall size of the little map and then the size of this Gerudo place.

"Seems like a good-sized little empire you got th--" He pauses when her words sink in, and gives her a look that teeters somewhere between shock and dismay. "When you were alive?" he asks carefully. He doesn't want to offend her, but... that's a pretty peculiar caveat.

All things considered, he could rather say the same thing himself. He hasn't always been Axel, after all. Lea had to die for Axel to be born, but... somehow he doesn't think Urbosa means anything quite so metaphorical.