[Once he said that, the hummingphant glanced at Trowa almost as if getting the translation then took off over Keith's head, heading back towards the woods]
Even if he had gone all the way to the lake with us, he wouldn't have been able to leave Sector 6. Unlike us, they can't leave this area.
[He'll leave out the one exception for the moment. No need to tell him about the raptors coming into the main part of the dome during outages yet.
It didn't take much longer and soon they were at the lake. Indeed it did appear that colors in the lake were changing as the residents swam around]