Status Updates From The Voids

Oh ch 8 :'(

only a few pages in and my question is: why does our main character stay? why does anyone who is left, remain at all? if the exodus created a sense of jovial transition- why not be apart of it ? especially if the conditions you remain in, arent good. I noted how our main character asks inwardly “i wonder if they had left us, or if we had left them (by remaining/not moving on).”