['Shit' is definitely a word he would use to describe the situation, so he thinks nothing of the accidental comment, though it is a little amusing when she clarifies it was an accident. Maybe because everything is just so terrible and absurd that literally anything normal and not-awful has some sense of levity to it.]
Everyone in here's hanging in there. No one seems to be in immediate danger, but I'm not sure how long that'll last; it's all starting to catch up with people.
['It' being everything: injuries, exhaustion, and illness being only a few of the many issues. And they have a new one in particular he needs to get to, but which he's been doing his best to put off mentally acknowledging unless absolutely necessary, so he answers her other question first.]
They aren't. They've shut us in another room and they're outside it; I don't know what they're doing, but I think they're really rattled, so they're just improvising.
[And okay. No more stalling. Just tell her.]
But remember how I told you before that there wasn't enough water? Well, now we've kind of got the opposite problem. The place is flooding. It's slow right now, but I don't know how long that'll be the case.
[Or the unspoken but likely clear addendum of 'or how long we have'.]
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Everyone in here's hanging in there. No one seems to be in immediate danger, but I'm not sure how long that'll last; it's all starting to catch up with people.
['It' being everything: injuries, exhaustion, and illness being only a few of the many issues. And they have a new one in particular he needs to get to, but which he's been doing his best to put off mentally acknowledging unless absolutely necessary, so he answers her other question first.]
They aren't. They've shut us in another room and they're outside it; I don't know what they're doing, but I think they're really rattled, so they're just improvising.
[And okay. No more stalling. Just tell her.]
But remember how I told you before that there wasn't enough water? Well, now we've kind of got the opposite problem. The place is flooding. It's slow right now, but I don't know how long that'll be the case.
[Or the unspoken but likely clear addendum of 'or how long we have'.]