So, the two of them didn't send Storm away and continued watching the others move towards the first group of people that they saw.
The group of people were moving carefully, but they were obviously stronger than the others. So even though they had a hard time flying, they could still last longer than the others, so in just half an hour they immediately reached the first group of people that they had seen before.
It seemed that they also have a way to communicate with each other as long as the distance isn't too far, or they have a way to signal each other, so the 24 people that they saw first hadn't moved away again and were still staying around waiting for the arrival of the others.
Afterwards, Ryzel and Layton heard the others greeting each other and reporting that they made no progress yet again, so they'll probably have to enter deeper as they still hadn't seen the herb that they were looking for.
