So close to the end goal! So close to winning that gold medal in the woolie herding Olympics--

"Maybe the train brought us up here because the people down there might not notice anything about the storm..?"

After all, these islands seem so high up. If the storm is going around this high up in the air, people down on the ground wouldn't even notice that it was going on. There might be another part entirely to this world that they're not seeing.