[The more Josh talks the more Chris thinks this might work; sure, he looks a bit terrifying and everything seems off--not that that's weird, since he's turning into a monster--but he sounds like Josh. Complete sentences, attitude, all the things monsters don't generally have.

He isn't letting his guard down, but he is allowing some attention to shift away from watching Josh to making sure nothing else springs out at them as they go.]

Yeah. She's um... Same boat as you right now.

B-But we're still looking for ways to fix this, bro. So hopefully it won't be for long.

[Hopefully really not long, if this works. If they make it to the Temple, all he has to do is convince Josh to stay the ten minutes or whatever Hope said it could take. He can do this. It's all going to work out.]