"Thanks."

She starts back up.

She only twtches a little at the song (especially the 'Even though you don't know what the price is/ It is justified' part).

She's a bit glad when the woman moves to the next song, but, well. She wasn't kidding about being really into this band.

Luckily, it only takes Lily until the end of the second song to find her. (Unluckily, these are weirdly long songs.)

"Got you," she says. "I'm still only using the freaky dangerous light, so, uh."

"Eyes are still shut."

"Okay."

"Think... It'll be best if I just take your hand? My left's the free one."

Sigh.

Still, she holds out her right hand.

She takes it, and, slowly, carefully, begins to lead them out and into the tunnel.

(...Why is there a huge brick tunnel here...)

She starts to explain her experiences over the last... Hour??? (And has the woman put her hands on Lily's shoulders so Lily can use both hands to direct the light.)

"...So we're navigating by glowing holes in your arm put there by an eldritch abomination?" she asks, several paragraphs later.

"Yup."

"I am super not looking."

"Told you so!"

"Yeah, but it sounded silly, then."

"You can't see it, but I'm rolling my eyes right now."

"And I'm sticking my tongue out!" An exagerated 'nnnnn!' noise follows.

She snorts and then starts laughing.

Giggle.

She successfully gets through explaining jumping into the nothingness with the dead girl, realizing the undead monster is the dead girl's body, waking up, finding a note from herself, second horrible undead monster, and then her dream where the dead girl revealed crazy laundromat dude is her brother Jake.

And then she sees a light around a bend in the tunnel. It looks normal, just... Flickering kinda quickly, sort of. And far away from any other rubble.

She gets her bandages resecured, more or less. The other light doesn't change.

"Found another light source. Looks normal. I've covered the spooky evil hand of doom, so you can open your eyes now."

She does.

Then: "That light is kinda suspicious."

"Yeah... Maybe Jake dropped some kind of light..."

She isn't very hopeful. 

"Maybe."

"We should be careful, though."

She nods.

"One of us look while the other stays back, then?"

"Think so."

"I'll look. You might already be - immunized, or something. Or. worse, you might be weakened..."

Ugh.

"I'll stay put, yeah."

"I'd offer to shout if I see a monster, but making that much noise might not be safe, either."

Snort. "Hopefully I'll notice if something jumps you - and I'll try to keep you in my line of sight."

"Sure." She smiles.