Words that are correct. And still, he asks no question. They don't know what he wants.

Not knowing something hardly counts as a problem. They are meant to know what they are told, and only that.

He has not told them to leave; there is no rain in here; he may have use for them yet.

They shift until they're not hunched so near the desk, allowing their thoughts to be drowned by the sound and sight of the water running down the window.