"Strength in numbers" Jason said simply as he finally caught his breath. "Besides, I wasn't entirely sure you were real until you spoke just now, so there's that" Jason grinned despite himself, and the situation. "The real question is, what are we going to do about these things trying to eat us" he continued, pacing "and why weren't we affected?" Jason's brain and mouth were moving a mile a minute as he spun his large wooden oar nervously