Your... shirt? [How vain and pointless. Adjusting his glasses, he pulled his pants leg back down and stood up with the help of his weapon.] Let us hope that will be the most of our problems.
[And with that, enough of a break. Satisfied that he heard nothing else, he stepped around the corner into the hall and then froze in place upon seeing a shadow a short distance away. It was not moving, and it was taller than the doll.] ...we have company.