No, Clara's got a good point, leaving a signal here is only so useful if there's nobody to meet up with.

[probably a point that should have occurred to him too, but oh well. he just got up.]

Okay, how about this: You guys stay here in case our candle gathers moths, we'll head out and see if we can find the others, come back and stay the night in the castle which is presumably both more defensible and more watertight than the open road, then head out to, to wherever we're going in the morning?