"I'll let you know. Thumbs down," he says, fully intending the ridiculous irony of such a silly, simple gesture meaning get us the hell out of here. Sometimes you have to manage the darkness with a little dry humor.

With shotgun in hand, he silences his own movements just in case and then pulls away finally to go see what all the noise is about. Peeking through the portal room door into the carnage beyond, he can see that past the injured and the dead, what remains of the immense many-eyed creature at the end of the room looks motionless, finally. He waits an extra second just to be sure, then slips back toward Law before the others can notice him, this time with an obvious, relieved smile on his face.

With a thump of his hand against his chest to cancel the calm, he slings the shotgun back onto his back as he sits back down at Law's side. "They did it."