[b][color=ed1c24]Sean the Gamer[/color][/b] Well that wasn't quite the type of response I'd been hoping for, the kind where someone accurately interprets the inherent ignorance in the situation of myself having literally arrived only moments ago, but I guess I'd have to educate him a little bit. I was never good at accepting orders from strangers either. [color=ed1c24]"Given that I arrived mere moments ago I have no idea about the specific subject of her panic, with such information I would be much more capable of assisting effectively."[/color] There's a reason I wasn't a teacher, I had a nasty habit of sounding terribly condescending whenever I set out to educate anyone, especially about something that 'I' might have viewed as painfully obvious... Nevertheless I shrugged it off and approached her closer in hopes of getting an actual informative hint. That wasn't all I got though as she seemed to crumble even further before the search truly got into full swing. [i]'A classfull of kids under her watch? That's gotta hurt, I'm even feeling it'[/i] s'truth, It hurt to imagine it, even more so when it began to pull into scope everything else that was related to those who'd fallen to the same fate, and it quickly began to drag me down as well... [i]'Damnit! not the time for this!'[/i] I could feel my own resolve slipping in the face of what he breaking down was making me think about and I had to try to get this back on track! Part of me wanted to just run off and find some place to take cover immediately, but a bigger part refused to just leave other people laying around in the open like this, so I'd have to hope I could get them in a moving mood before I had my own breakdown... God damnit all I hated timers, especially invisible ones. [hider=music change] [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF4RCOcz9ow[/url] [/hider] I moved on closer to where they sat then, once more oblivious to the music of my phone changing tracks to something much more out of place, and attempted to make some inexperience gestures meant to had some inspiration to my words... or something like that. [color=ed1c24]"There's no reason to lose hope! Absence is not evidence, No body means they might have survived just like we did. Hell, I survived a tumble in an RV full of electronics. I'm sure your students have an idea how the park's emergency plans work, that's one of those things always covered in preparation of school field trips right? Maybe they'll come to the flare too, and if not, we can always do some searching when the sun comes back up. If we can help it, it will be a good idea to have a temporary shelter set up if anyone else comes this way, maybe the ranger station down the way, that should work for a day or two, right? We're all still in relatively good condition aren't we? I'd be willing to bet they're hiding somewhere nice and safe right now."[/color] Of course, I wasn't willing to 'really' bet on that, maybe a few of them survived, maybe none of them, but I wasn't about to exacerbate her breakdown by speaking of things like that. For now false hope would be better than none, it would at least get her to a safer place to freak out. It was odd though, a glance at her doodling was natural when I was close enough, but something about the sun's she was filling the page with was familiar to me... I couldn't quite place it and it wasn't important enough to put any real thought into at the moment.