This is a long one, so if you're in a hurry bookmark it to read later.
First in this chapter there's a description of what La Garra city looked like when it was up in the sky, but it's all the speculation of a book known as The Aeo Atlas by E.L. Eng, who tried to piece it all together. Basically the city was pretty fancy, is all.
Then there's a story about The Mayor's Wife, who cheated on the mayor, got pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. They mayor killed her and took the babies, put the girl in a giant terrarium??? and drop the boy down a hole called the Orifex. The boy dies from falling so far down and his body lands underwater on a statue of a giant hand of the God of the sea. Then he is ALIVE again, gets washed up on shore, and grew up to become someone known as The Fisherman. Can I just say WTF, pardon my language. There's more stuff about him, but I'm running out of room. Basically he becomes the main person in town, kills some pirates, and then his town is known as Fort Black.
A couple things to mention: the terrarium sounds like a place that was described in Glendang's office building. The place above where all the girls lived who took transcripts? I have to dig up what chapter that was. Also "Orifex" is a name that the author uses for some music that he records. I don't know if the music is actually related to this though. The statue of the giant hand gets mentioned when May goes underwater to find Hugo's trunk. And there's a restaurant called "Maxine's" mentioned, which I think might be a reference to a song called Maxine recorded by the author under his alter ego of whygodwhy.com. What the hell does that mean though, you got me.
This chapter is the kind of thing where you know you need to pay good attention because it's probably important later, but it's kind of lot to wrap your brains around. That happens a lot in movies, where you have to watch it a second time to understand everything. Not that I'm reading this book again! *sighs*