There's no time to waste. Their lives are already slipping away, but they can reach the others and pull them in. If York serves as bait, he will need people to take said bait. And Locus can close off other methods of escape, corral them in, force them into closer quarters.

There is so much they can do together, that could not be done apart. He rumbles again before pulling away, shambling down the hall in search of new victims.