<em>Very</em>hungry, comes the reply.<br/><br/><em>Lots of minds inside, very jumbled. Impossible to sort out, easily. Twenty, thirty, maybe more</em>. She sends him a 'heatmap' of where the mental activity is coming from; it gives him a vague idea of where people are, but not enough to hit them with anything. It does show him where the captives are being held, though, bunched up near the heart of the building, more than a half dozen, by her estimate.