Even if the swarm doesn’t stop, we’ll be better off if we wait until we can see to press on.

[Liem’s eyes are still stinging from the burning spores; he’d be happier about trying to face down the swarms of biting bugs if he could at least see where they were going in the meantime.

Turning toward the sound of Dimitri’s voice, he reaches his free hand out to him, hunkering down in the water as he does.]

Let’s just take a moment to regroup.