"It's okay, Mumble, I want to go home too," Ray confesses in quiet penguin. "You stay with me and I'll keep you safe until we can get out of here and get you home, okay?"

He then looks up and over at the two other men from Miskatonic, who're staring at him incredulously. "I have some experience with dealing with wild animals," he says, thinking of Red.

"Ye-e-e-es," says Dyer. "So it would seem. You're a man of quite a few hidden talents, Dr. Stantz."

There's an implication of something more hidden and unpleasant in Dyer's voice, but Ray chooses to ignore it. Resting his hand on Mumble's head a moment he says, "We need to keep going. We don't know how this little guy got here or what else we might expect."

"I suppose not," says Dyer. "And we owe it to poor Gedney to learn what we can of his abductors- all right, let's get moving.

"Mumble?" Ray says in Penguin again. "We're going to see what we can find down here, and I'm going to see if I can find a door to open that'll take us home."

Antarctica suffers from a severe dearth of doors. The only ones to be found are in the city of the Elder Things.