[Ken wonders if it's worth mentioning that he was being flippant, but maybe being flippant in the face of - well, it's Somarium - isn't such a great idea. If there's one thing he knows about this place, it's that things can always get worse.]
Maybe. There's always been a forewarning of worse things to come.
[He can't tell if it's strange or fitting to talk about something like this so soon after he died (again), but then again, he's never been one to live in past events. Besides, it's helping him focus, at the very least.]
That's true. Suppose all we can do is keep our eyes open. I--
[Ken breaks off. Laughs a little, shaking his head. How exactly did this conversation go from zero to 'we're all doomed' in about a minute and a half?]
--I guess I'm gonna have to be patient. [Not something he's good at.] Not like there's anything much we can do about it right now.
IC
... what, you think?
[Ken wonders if it's worth mentioning that he was being flippant, but maybe being flippant in the face of - well, it's Somarium - isn't such a great idea. If there's one thing he knows about this place, it's that things can always get worse.]
You really think it's gonna get that bad?
IC
[He can't tell if it's strange or fitting to talk about something like this so soon after he died (again), but then again, he's never been one to live in past events. Besides, it's helping him focus, at the very least.]
IC
[Ken breaks off. Laughs a little, shaking his head. How exactly did this conversation go from zero to 'we're all doomed' in about a minute and a half?]
--I guess I'm gonna have to be patient. [Not something he's good at.] Not like there's anything much we can do about it right now.
IC
I guess there isn't. That's one of the things I don't like about this place—there isn't much to do but wait, unfortunately.
IC
[He's always hated being kept in the dark.]