"I hope they didn't all die as well. I'd wondered that before, if they might be tied to the world eater and ending it would harm them." For as much as he'd not understood them, fought them, and is currently suffering burns and bite wounds from them, he didn't wish all of them ill.

In fact some of them he'd been fond of.

"I hope you're right, that they're just in shock. Maybe they'll come out soon."