"Where else is someone gonna live?" The rest of that just ends up making him stutter incoherently for a moment before he gives up, shaking his head.

Following Eliot's gesture, he can sort of make out the doors in the distance. The blond side-eyes the taller man again when he mentions spells, but considering they're surrounded by enchanted pockets of unfortunate events, he's just going to run with it for now.

"I got a flashlight?" he says, tapping at the little device on his chest. "We can at least see where the pits are before we hit them."