[Ren's still inspecting his packet when she speaks again, and he glances up at her and blinks slightly in confusion, first looking to the outside and then back to her.]

Did you actually see anything out there other than the weird mosquitoes...? It's been pretty deserted where I've been walking...

[Considering how flat most of the landscape has been, he figures even if he'd been in a more inattentive mood, he probably wouldn't have missed movement that wasn't other people heading in the same direction.]