Hilda can't bring herself to say anything and instead merely nods to confirm Nadine's question. She crosses her arms, but whether that's a lame attempt at comforting herself or trying to think about how this was all pointing to a more sinister truth is hard to discern.

Maybe there were similarities between the disappearances. "Your friends — do you know where they might have been last? I'm asking because Claude and Sylvain went out to the desert." And the desert wouldn't have been enough cause for worry normally. They went out to the desert all the time and came back, albeit sometimes with a couple of scrapes and bruises from wayward creatures or scuffles.