Luckily at least one of them had a good bedside manner. Comfort wasn't really a top priority or anything, but Firo imagined having someone who seemed to get how to calm someone down would go a long way towards helping in this situation.

He shook his head. "Shit. So we just--?" Just wait? See if he made it? Probably not questions that were important enough to ask in front of their patient.

But there was something else that maybe needed to be said, tact or no. "I'm not sure how many are still in there. I'm hopin' they were just taken by other people." The alternative didn't need to be spelled out. He sighed, trying to clear his lungs of the rasp. "I'll go back in and do what I can."