Pointed in the right direction
After making the initial contact to the authorities, he was instructed to monitor the situation and make another report if he ever heard the sound again. Which did not turn out to be the case. He could only provide Mark and Diddy with one piece of information, which was the general direction from which he believed the sound to have originated. He did not really know anything further.
Meg was calm
Even though they had the impression that there was not much more for them to learn in this location, the pair nonetheless made the decision to go in that direction in the expectation of finding another clue. They were also walking with Meg, who had, on the surface at least, stopped crying after everything that she had done the day before. But it wouldn’t be the case for very long…