Yeah, but I've found claiming you meant to do that after the fact tends to have the same effect, [ he says before they both pause there. He listens for just a moment, his own hearing a few steps above baseline himself, though he can't make out the details that the other man can, and doesn't try. ]

Then we go left.

[ He doesn't ask how Deuc knows. Steve would have to be a fool not to be able to guess — which is also why he lets him take the lead this time into the darker passageway — but Steve's also less concerned with the question of monsters than of choices. The man is fighting beside him; that's all he needs to know. ]