"Yeah, good call." Ken glanced over his shoulder, back in the direction he'd come from. "There wasn't anything too horrible in the hall behind us."

Yet, anyway.

"But there also wasn't anything that looked like it'll get us anywhere." With the mission, with securing a way out, with finding anybody - all the things they should be doing, right beneath don't get killed or eaten by anything on the priority list. It might make for an okay place to regroup and figure out what came next, but nothing more than that.