[This is a start, so maybe they can get somewhere after all.]

This is a first for me too. [It would probably be a little weirder if either of them had actually faced this sort of problem before, but that's a thought for another time.] This particular kind of threat, anyway.

I don't... [Be nice, tiger-kid is nervous and there's no reason to be total jerk.] You might be right. About the strength in numbers.