"Considering how few of us there are," at least if she understands this correctly, there is only the four of them who are here, and also Lottie, which... means not very many people at all, "I can understand why they would wish to have more people than just us go.

...And it's not like our ability to withstand the miasma would have helped with this." As callous as that sounds - better them than her. Who'd look after Lottie?