After a moment, Heiji reached up and put his hand on Hershel's opposite shoulder, then nodded. "Yeah, I know. You're right."

Which didn't really make the situation all that much better, but certainly there was no way that they could know if the people who had been removed were all right or not, so... sliver of hope, go?

"Kinda worried about how Clive's gonna react when he finds out about Aoi, too."