Blackfeather Woods & i've been sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool for a while now

He listened, knowing that if someone talked enough they'd give information they'd otherwise wouldn't. If Maegi was talking to him, she wouldn't have told him they would leave.
He stared absently into the horizon, listening.
Then they stopped, and he felt eyes on him.
Rowan looked at them, ready to defend himself.

"I'm staying. I don't care if you all leave." 
This place had his friends and it was safe. Everything outside was not. There were already people scared of him. The shouting woman. She was scared. 
Venamis was still at large. He'd hoped the piece of shit had died. 
Here, the steam was still running. Enough for him to drink, and the birds helped him eat, be it their own frail, dead bodies or some other creature.