'Nowadays' meaning 'where you're from'.

[it's all relative. Need's also not sure what butchering knives are like in said world, but that's a topic that could be iterated on endlessly.]

Now that we've been standing around in this part of the swamp for a while, is there anything obviously interesting about?

[the dirty water that had splashed on her as she walked is not evident now. Need just doesn't think of 'her body' and clothes as real things that get and remain dirty.]