Shion nods emphatically at her question. "A lot of ducking behind things and keeping quiet," he says, "which is, you know, unusual for me, but it seems to be working okay so far. I thought it wouldn't a couple times." He shudders dramatically, and it doesn't require much acting. These... creatures are gross and creepy, even to him, unsettling and different from what he's encountered before. He's seen enough to suspect there's something that unites them all, a sameness of type, rather than the usual disparate origins he's seen in Darrow's transplants. Whatever's down here, they belong together, even if they're all different.

"I haven't really tested the church thing," he adds, "but those areas are quiet. I don't think it's a coincidence, whatever the reason. All of them, too, not just any one given faith. Sacred ground maybe."