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
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. — Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind