“Ronan?” Her voice spread and softened in the space, eaten by the black. A pause. Somewhere, water dripped. Then: “Sargent?” “I found her! There’s another way out! Can you manage to get out the way we came?” Another pause. “Yeah.” “Then go!” “Really?” “Yeah, there’s no point if you can’t cross!” It was more dangerous for him to be there in the dark and unknown, and she wouldn’t be able to take her mother and Artemus back that way.
