Xichen is... nearly overwhelmed. The strangeness of the place is its own complication, but...

But da ge...

It has been more than ten years.

He breathes out, long and quiet.

"The woods should be safer now, at least for a little while. Let us return you home, and after, we can seek out more who have been lost."

It sounds like a statement, but there is just enough of a waver in his voice to be half a question, too.