Renji spared a glance at Ren, but kept going. Unless he heard the guy yelling, he wasn't going to worry about it too much. Other than the thing with the triangle on its head, he'd yet to come across much of anything here that he and River couldn't beat together.

"I'll walk and listen, I guess," Renji said. "I don't think I'm smart enough to hypotho-thingy." He shot a grin over his shoulder at her.

There was a door, on the left side of the hall. Cautiously, he opened it and stepped through.

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