New Resolve

In the end, the only thing that Theo could do was run.

Yet, even with his time to do so running out… he couldn't JUST run.

No.

First, he had to ensure that running away now wouldn't lead to disaster a few moments later. And for that sake, while already walking backward through his tunnel, he pointed his universal tool up, right in the opposite direction he moved.

'Faster!'

Hurrying himself in his thoughts, Theo pressed the button and twisted his hand at its wrist, adding up another stretch of the tunnel ahead.

Then, pretty much as soon as his hand moved back to its natural orientation, his mind already rolled the excavation projection by ninety degrees while keeping it rooted in the exact same starting spot as before, adding a side tunnel to where he expected the arachnid to emerge.

Just a few steps down the original tunnel, Theo added another leg to the underground passage. And then another. And another.