He was rather startled to be dragged behind safety as well, not used to anyone having the reflexes to keep up when he did act rather suddenly, but Eight couldn't say he objected that much as a rather large chunk of metal speared into the earth where he'd been a moment ago.

"Ah. Well, hopefully after that there isn't much left to run from but..." He flashed her a wide smile and peered around the edge of the wall. "Thank you, by the way. I don't think that would have been rather pleasant."

"As for what happened... I was working on some rather delicate materials in what I thought was a safe location but it turns out the vibrations attracted the attention of some of the local wildlife and unfortunately I wasn't able to reason with them. I'd have left if I'd known but after a few of them damaged it, there wasn't much time." He sighed, sounding rather sorry about the way it had all ended.

"Still, I imagine it could have gone much worse--" And as he spoke, there was a shift from inside the building and the remains of the door bursts open as a swarm of giant spiders surge out and towards them. Eight brightened immediately. "Oh! Survivors!"