It probably needs to slow down a little for a while. That way characters have time to bond, inner conflicts have time to be made, personality traits need to come out, and wounds need to be fixed. So maybe for us just cave living for a few days??
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine" - The Imitation Game
He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night. — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart