Then comes a thing that they do not expect. He obliges. He looks to them, he offers. They recognize that - curiosity, the exclusion of fear. It seems unnatural on him. It smells different from his typical adrenaline-soaked panic.

Does he know, then, that they have nowhere else to go? No one left to go to?

He is the sole spot of familiarity. They have nothing left to follow.

And so they follow him.