So it's got him too. But it's starting to sound like there's no avoiding that. Donnie rubs at his arms to stave off a shiver that isn't due to the weather.

He's back to staring again, sorry Akechi, but that is a lot to unpack there, and that's only with the bare minimum of what's been said. In no way is this exactly reassuring him about his brother's condition, not that it had exactly been stellar back at home but at least there weren't weird moons and hungry trees!

"...he recovered from the shade of a tree that intended to eat him." One might get the impression that hint of sarcasm is very much just how he normally sounds. "So we can't even trust trees in this place?!" Horrible!