Oh, you have children? That must be difficult... being here without them.

[Said in complete sympathy. He's here alone as well. But he can't think of how much more difficult it would be for someone to be parted from their children.]

That sounds horrifying. [And if he'd been fresh from his world, even more so. But after seeing everything of Deer Country, of Trench, it's somehow easier to picture a world shrouded in utter darkness.] Is it contained to a certain area? Or is this something you have to worry about spreading?

Ah... I can see why that would be disconcerting, to say the least.