[He really hopes so. Since Raihan seems to be getting the hint and chilling out, Blue doesn't acknowledge it again, letting there be a bit of quiet, until Raihan asks.]

Better than any of the other options, right? [Let him have just that one hope; in a place like this where nothing made sense, maybe the most logical explanation wasn't likely to be the right one, but the other logical explanations felt far worse. And anyway, he doesn't think both of them could have met such fates....]

I mean, they're not answering their phones, even if they worked- we can't find 'em anywhere, and there's no trace of them.... So even if they just wandered off or got eaten by a wild Pokémon or something, you'd think there'd be a scrap of cape leftover, huh?

[Blue flashes a grim grin.] Doubt those're tasty.