Firo followed, all too content to have someone directing. "Got it!"

The choice of whether to try and take on the thing again or go down with her shouldn't even have been on the menu at this point. But he stopped for just a second, wondering if he could be certain enough in his ability to hold the thing back. Certain enough that he could keep it from slipping by him and going after her anyway. ...Which he wasn't.

"Brace yourself, okay?" With no more warning than that, he made to jump down the hatch, pulling her along if she'd let him.