Uh, you could say that... I was up there when midnight hit, so I hate to say it, but I don't think your crops made it to this side.

( not only that, but... )

There's not much floor left to speak of on the fourth floor, either.

( so he'd have a pretty hard time getting back up to the roof besides. )

Anyway, it's rough if we've lost that much. Still, we have our shopkeeper to thank for the dorms being pretty well supplied, don't we? ( they've single-handedly saved us all. ) As long as we have some of the basics — potatoes, rice — things like that, we should be able to make it until we can find a way out of here.

( he's not assuming it'll be long — he's not about to make them cry because he went missing for three whole weeks again. )