"I also did not think storms had emotions! No idea if that's normal for storms on this planet, or if there's something real fucked up going on and the rain is alive or something! But apparently plants can experience hope, also according to the Iudex, so!" He throws up his free hand a little in a gesture of 'I'm so confused I've just given up'. "This might as well happen!"

That-- oh. Shang Beida blushes a little, against his will. "Casper is, um. One of the others of us who woke up here during the storm. He's-- nice." He might squeak a little bit on the word 'nice'. Um. What is relevant to tell someone random about Casper. "He's from Earth, or an Earth, anyway. He's got ice powers." Should he say the demigod part? Casper tells everyone, there's no reason not to. "He's a demigod."