Jamie, lining up the tools he'd been using just to double-check they're all still there, pauses as the girl speaks. Just for a moment, though, and then he's back to fidgeting with the tools, not really wanting to contemplate what she's saying. He's quiet for a few long moments.

"I thought - well, I hadn't been back here for a while. I figured things had just...changed since then, places do that when you go away sometimes, y'know. But - " He gazes off into the distance, toward the empty, silent village. The fear starts to well up in him again, and he tamps it down fiercely.

"So where are we." His voice is flat and his expression, when he glances back at her, is carefully closed off.