"I hope so," Eleven breathed with a great deal of sincerity.

He followed her lead and lit a small flame in his hand, using the flickering light to see by even as the flickering shadows occasionally made his heart leap into his throat. If anything happened, this time.. well, he'd prefer it was his own back that was exposed, anyway.

They'd cover more ground separately, but neither could they afford to stray too far from one another. Eleven's eyes strained through the dark, sweeping low over the grass and carefully pulling apart bush branches for stray bits of down.

"..Find anything?"