"We're going to a hospital," Ben answered, somewhat irritably. He didn't really know the answer, either, but he didn't think it much mattered. What mattered was that they were being loaded up in order to get medical care — and that wherever they were going, it was somewhere outside of the damn fog. "They didn't tell you because, lucky for us, you're not in charge of getting us there." Not that Ben had been paying the most attention to what was happening elsewhere during the troll attack, having been otherwise occupied, but he didn't recall the boy having done anything useful.

Turning his attention towards the other adult man in the sick bay, who he was much more interested in, Ben asked eagerly, "Were you still in the building when it came down?"