[ He'd still be personally less inclined to explore regardless of the circumstances, but if she'd expressed some interest in it, maybe he'd look around a little longer. Just so she didn't get caught up in something alone here. As it is, they both seem to be on the same page. ]

I feel like it's tryin' too hard to keep us in here.

[ For a minute, he briefly thinks about that other diffusion zone, the one that was just that resort with the pool and the robot bartender. It was weird, sure, kinda creepy, maybe, and some of the people who showed up sometimes made their own trouble. But the place itself didn't hurt anyone, it was just there. Being weird.

Then he thinks about that fucking office building, where he'd been trapped with Karen, and it was anything but harmless though to look at it from the outside, it seemed just as seemingly normal as anything else around that night. So, can't exactly bank on stuff around here being predictable.

Maybe this place doesn't mean any harm, but he can't count on that. At least they don't have to choose between fifty different tunnels to head down. But he gives a look ahead, assesses. ]

So there's — kinda dark, and also kinda dark, but with...scented oils? Jesus. [ What a place he...very much wants to get out of. The options they have are about the same level of illuminated, though. Enough to semi-see ahead of them and not have to feel like they're fumbling around for a foothold, or getting snuck up on. At least, not at the moment.

The minute he says that and thinks that, he thinks he sees movement over his shoulder, but quick as he turns his head, it's gone. Still, it's enough to make him nod at Alisaie. ]

Go up ahead towards the left, I'll follow.