[The good news is that Cherryblod doesn't explicitly know they're not okay. The bad news is that for all he knows, he left them behind in hell on earth.

He's trying not to choke up and cry as he talks, and not really succeeding.]

There was so much blood - blood in the sky, blood in the water, eyes and hands everywhere, I've never seen it that bad even in the middle of the war - I know what the Sea of Death does to people, how could I leave them in a place like that, what's happened to them, what's happened to them-

[His thoughts aren't coherent right now.]