The sense of worry about being separated continued to hang over Joanna. Sticking close by Web and keeping track of the others' texts helped, but there was still a sense of something missing. She eventually pushed them to meet up with the others in Bamborough, at least - and confirm whether they could find the others in this still empty city.

Along the way to meeting up, trying to wait for each other at major landmarks, they found that staying still invited shoves from some invisible force. Trying to brush it aside or push back felt like pushing through air, and the classic solution to invisible creatures - tossing a powder - had no effect, as if it was just immaterial force nudging them.

But they've only started investigating that question, when another feeling changes - this time a sense of arrival. Joanna spots a horrifying figure shuffling from one the street. Unlike the eyeball with legs, or the astonishing urchin-like shapes... These look child-like, but hardly in any position to be moving around.

"F-Fius, are these the monsters?" She wonders, one hand over mouth and the other grasping at the air at her side, ready to hold a weapon - just as soon as she can think of one to request.