I imagined as much. [and if he lets slip a hint of irritation in his tone... well, it's not towards her. it's towards the thing relentlessly coming towards him, even now.]

Only corpses don't bleed, but of course, many conventional things about corpses don't apply to the thing chasing me.

[as he says that, his loop takes him right next to the girl, then he cocks his head in a random direction.]

Let's go.