Rina got worried… She could tell that something was off, and it was related with the inhabitants of the first shelter they didn't find weeks ago. Her tension and fear grew stronger when they reached the second shelter in that forest and confirmed that the people there had disappeared as well… the same traces could be found in both shelters. Tools, food, clothes… everything had been left behind. There were no signs of battles either.
"... Our plan to make sure that not all of us would be exterminated by staying at a single place backfired us," Rina said while biting her lips in exasperation.
"Don't just assume the worst," Luke said. "Until we find any traces of them, it is too soon to assume that they were annihilated."
"She is surprisingly negative when it comes to the fate of her people," Shalia said.