"Blown wide open is more than I hoped for, but it would be nice if that was the case." He glances back towards where they came from, everything sucking up the light where it looks like they had just emerged from a black hole. Those still at the silo would have to check on Weaver and the others, he didn't want to split their forces, but they needed to confirm the kill.

"If there was some glowing forest spirit in the lake we may have disturbed it with the bomb." But that doesn't explain the lack of World Eater. Or what happened to that column of water.

"I don't think it's cunning enough to be lying in wait to strategize its next move. Everything we know of it seems like it would lumber straight towards what it wanted without much forethought. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but if it was alive, I think it would have reemerged in the time it took us to get down here."