[ Ah. Well, that certainly sounds like the plague they've all heard of. And really, what else could it have been? The plague sounds like it was at the epicenter of nearly everything that went wrong with the Grove.
It is distressing to hear that he—or at least the person he was before—didn't make it in time. It wouldn't have made a difference, but maybe it would have meant something. At least he already had an idea of how young the kids must have been at the time; the journals he found made it sound like they weren't quite adults when everything went to hell, and they lived in the Grove for at least a decade. Give or take the time weirdness, of course. ]
... That must have been hard to them. It's good that you were there for them.
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It is distressing to hear that he—or at least the person he was before—didn't make it in time. It wouldn't have made a difference, but maybe it would have meant something. At least he already had an idea of how young the kids must have been at the time; the journals he found made it sound like they weren't quite adults when everything went to hell, and they lived in the Grove for at least a decade. Give or take the time weirdness, of course. ]
... That must have been hard to them. It's good that you were there for them.