If she died down here, it wouldn't be by his hand and he would certainly be doing everything he could to stop that from happening. But he couldn't convince her of that right away since they didn't know each other.

He continued to glance back at first to check her progress until they reached the main area and...

"Ataashi," he breathed in awe as he stared up at the beast. Shit, this probably wasn't good but he couldn't help the way he stared with wide eyes.