Abel had been searching his mind for the appropriate words to respond to his partner's suggestion when the thundering roar chased his thoughts away. While Bridget flinched and took cover, he froze in his tracks. As the sound swept over him, he didn't move. His first instinct was that this clamor belonged to some monstrous Grimm, but even though his knowledge of the monsters wasn't perfect, he knew nothing of one that sounded like a tiger. Even so, he went over to Bridgett and crouched down beside her lest some rampaging beast charge out of the yawning darkness.

A few uneventful moments passed. Abel was aware of every breath taken, by himself and Bridgett both. By the time he counted twenty, he decided that if there was any real threat, it would have become apparent by now. He returned to his full height, and sauntered onto the train tracks leading into the stygian darkness. As he moved, he swapped the Ampere into staff mode. "Never tried this before," he muttered in a low tone, not clearly enough for the girl to hear. Holding the Ampere above his head, he carefully allowed his aura to flow through it. The electric current reached the crystal focus in its head, but with such a low voltage it merely congregated there instead of arcing out into the air. A fitful azure glow projected from the dust crystal, emitting a steady sparking noise in the process, and the shadows shrank away. Abel took a few steps across the wooden ties of the track and entered the cave. The light he cast was weak, but it was probably preferable to blindness. "Hah!" He exclaimed, his voice creating a slight echo. "Didn't think that would work. Time to go and get killed by whatever roared at us, I guess."