[Espy]

Raising an eyebrow at...what was her name?...Dante sighed in exasperation, then grudgingly held onto a floating Thomas to steer him out of the way of whoever else might come toppling down the stairs.

"It feels like even if I had normal vision, it'd still be too dark to see jack shit down here."

Then...paws and a nose? But ice cold paws and a hard-as-steel nose. And then the thing whimpered. Or at least, Dante figured it was the creature's way of whimpering; to him, it sounded more akin to gears whirring away. And it smelled like lithium grease.

He didn't have a free hand to shove it off, but it jumped off him soon enough and...shook? Metal plates groaned and rattled. This was the girl's dog, wasn't it? Then...where was the girl? Suddenly, the dog's ears bumped into his leg as it turned abruptly, and Dante squinted.

Still nothing. Strange. But if she was still out there, she was either a corpse by now, or safe enough to not bother saving. Confused, Dante turned back to the task of pushing Thomas deeper into what he assumed was a cavern of some sorts.