"Oh, you saw their big friend too," Russell says, with a slightly too-high voice as he tries to be calm and reassuring. He looks over her head and her surroundings, checking for any signs she hit herself. But her voice is sounding better as she talks, which is reassuring.

"No, Kitty found a better hole, she led a few people in... What did the mice bring you?" He checks around the ground again, as if expecting there to be something there. It hasn't yet occurred to him that this happened so quickly that it's him they went to get.