They stood around a table, looking at a map of the Nation of Blood in silence. Elaine looked around the table, seeing the concerned expressions on everyone's faces, the tension nearly thick enough to cut with a knife. Reznov glared at the map, frowning and scratching at his beard. Arina stood next to him, looking at her father like she wished she could be of some help. Annie and Noelle stood to her right, the two having grown close after their long stay in the dungeons and both having their brows furrowed into a v shape. Her mother was off to her left, hands behind her back with a neutral expression. Jack was next to her, and he was the only one who appeared unbothered, his remaining eye looking at the map with a bored expression on his face.