"We would have prefered that to not be the case either," Inigo remarks - kind of dryly too, because yes, indeed, that's the exact problem! If the train just wasn't going around, dragging people in from all sorts of worlds willy-nilly, without thinking about the consequences for the worlds left behind or what would happen if the tether was unstable and people 'left'...

Inigo shakes his head, sensing that he's falling into a trap about negative thinking, knowing that he'll feel like crap if he considers this for much longer.

So she sucks in a breath, attempting this again. Come on, Inigo, at least see something positive in all this.

"At least we do have some contact with you now. It's better than nothing." Even if that's a very low bar. "I was almost starting to feel as if we would just be at the train's mercy forever."

Since it's not like they can just untether themselves and go home that easily. If it's even this hard for the Ministry to figure out the situation, then how could they, people with zero experience with any of this, have figured it out by themselves?