[ Joel doesn't glance back, focus narrowed down to just getting through the door, finding a way out of this place, before they're overrun. It doesn't take long, but those fleeting seconds feel stretched to their limit, far beyond the time the whole rough operation takes up.
The door rattles inward, wobbling on its hinges with the force of that last blow, and and he turns back just in time to see that briefly stunned, eyeless thing take another lunge at them. ]
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[ Joel doesn't glance back, focus narrowed down to just getting through the door, finding a way out of this place, before they're overrun. It doesn't take long, but those fleeting seconds feel stretched to their limit, far beyond the time the whole rough operation takes up.
The door rattles inward, wobbling on its hinges with the force of that last blow, and and he turns back just in time to see that briefly stunned, eyeless thing take another lunge at them. ]