"Wait how long was I asleep?" He looked mildly concerned but still smiled at them. Benji looked awe-y, surprised Ethan could even move. Especially since he could see almost everything those men did to him. Ethan's hands were shaking and his eyes still had troubLe focusing but he wasn't about to show that he was still so dizzy he might throw up and or faint at any point in time. He might've been more sore from playing there and not moving than from everything else that had happened to him.

"From the moment you got here to now, so about..." Asta thought for a moment. "15ish hours?" She shrugged, watching him, still slightly concerned as his hands shook. Fitz nodded teasingly. F "You sure got your beauty sleep, man." He joked, smiling at him. He was as tired as everyone else was over the tense silence, so he did his best to lighten the mood. He had never even really spoken with Ethan that often, but Asta fawned over him, so he accepted that he had no choice but to be nice to him.

He narrowed his eyes, that made a lot of sense considering how awful he felt at the moment. "Beauty sleep my ass." He said with a slight grin, tipping his head down to wince as he chuckled. Fitz seemed a little forced at the moment but he was making an effort, he smiled up at the two younger siblings, faintly remembering that Fitz had helped Rome and specifically the look on Biana's face, regret and guilt. But he didn't show any sign of remembering either.

Asta huffed. "Well, seeing as we're all relatively alive and well, I say now sounds like a great time to start planning how to fix this shit." She looked around Fitz had gone quiet, and Biana was looking off at something. "Because we all know theres just about one hope for the sanctuary people, and that's us." She said firmly.

Well my ass too. He looked down at the fire, how the hell would they fix this. He took a deep breath- as deep as he could without visibly paining himself. "If we can draw out dragons I suspect the shit they drugged em with will wear off like it did with Zeus out of that forest." He said, kinda thinking out loud but really it wasn't crazy sounding. He hoped. "More firepower, more fire. Less Alex." He hoped Zeus was okay. Whatever he'd dreamt of had left a lasting impression of worry for Zeus. He couldn't remember what it was though.

Asta nodded. "Decent idea, but the bigger question would be how." She huffed. Neither Fitz nor Biana had much input for a few moments until Fitz piped up. F "Well, Castor got away, right? Maybe other dragons did too? We could always try to find them and use them to our advantage." He shrugged.

"..bait?" He suggested quietly, then looked up at Fitz. "There most likely are other people out in the Sanctuary, I doubt Alex found everyone in the whole property, especially since he can't talk to the dragons." He narrowed his eyes.

Asta nodded. "Its a fair plan, but even if we bait the dragons out, they aren't just going to look over it without realizing the dragons are gone." She sighed, leaning her head into her hand. "I guess its worth a try, though. And if we can find those people it would be all the better."

"Should send someone out on Castor, looking over the sheep eould probably be our best bet for finding people," he said, thinking of all the places people might be. "He probably had the school looked over. Though nobody should be there since it's festive season."

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"Id say so. But I don't want to start anything until you can at least take semi-care of yourself. I wont start anything until then. I refuse. And that is final, so don't try to argue with me." She said, glaring at him.