Doc's shoulders rise as he takes in a deep, slow breath to start protesting, or defending, but he's all out of steam at the moment and he just deflates with a grunt. They are no closer now to any answers than they had been before. No idea who or what those women are. If they were even alive to begin with. At least, he doesn't think they're any of the young ladies who had gone missing, but he can't be sure.

"If they're spirits they're already dead." 'Unfathomable' is putting ice cream in grits. What they had just witnessed was... Abhorrent on some other level.

"What is this 'abyss' you speak of?" Something more than the darkness of the ravine? Maybe Dorian has some insight into whatever abomination lurks in there.