Lind had lost 73 more people after breaking through to new hallways. Annabelle's map was obsolete in part but he began to see a pattern in the openings and understood what was happening.
The Bastard had manipulated space not just on himself but on the last stretch entirely. It focused everything on them! How he was attacking so many times so quickly eluded him but it left him harried.
No matter how much progress he made, he might be looping back to a previous hallway without ever knowing it!
The spikes kept repeating, just shifting points of origin. He tracked that and finally pieced together that they were following a pattern.
The floor trap was the hallway right after the gauntlet. The walls were the right step forward but the ceiling was taking him back to the first.
The attacks were worse in the first and last hallway but greatly reduced in the middle hallway. Something changed in that hallway so he had to get back to it.
