[On his side, Jayden has started pacing, carefully avoiding the slowly-growing puddles as if it matters at this point if he gets his shoes wet.]
I can swim, but that's not going to matter at some point.
[And not just when the whole place fills up, but once it gets too deep for people to rest. But that's still a time off, and dwelling on the ever-present dread is not going to help either the people trapped or those looking for them, so he tries to refocus on her questions. The only problem there is that he doesn't have a very useful answer.]
I don't know. The whole thing was too chaotic to keep track, but I think it's something like half the Summoned left? It's more than just a few people anyway, and it's not just us, but there's still some people native to this world here too.
[Probably not information that will help much. There has to be something he can tell her that isn't just how terrible things are; something that might actually help. Something. Anything. Get it together and think of something.]
There's less of the cultists now too. Probably still too many for those of us that are here to deal with, but less than before.
[He doesn't know that even more have left in search of those who escaped, but the numbers were thinned out a bit in the shrine monster's departure, and that's something, right?]
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I can swim, but that's not going to matter at some point.
[And not just when the whole place fills up, but once it gets too deep for people to rest. But that's still a time off, and dwelling on the ever-present dread is not going to help either the people trapped or those looking for them, so he tries to refocus on her questions. The only problem there is that he doesn't have a very useful answer.]
I don't know. The whole thing was too chaotic to keep track, but I think it's something like half the Summoned left? It's more than just a few people anyway, and it's not just us, but there's still some people native to this world here too.
[Probably not information that will help much. There has to be something he can tell her that isn't just how terrible things are; something that might actually help. Something. Anything. Get it together and think of something.]
There's less of the cultists now too. Probably still too many for those of us that are here to deal with, but less than before.
[He doesn't know that even more have left in search of those who escaped, but the numbers were thinned out a bit in the shrine monster's departure, and that's something, right?]