Locke was sitting at the edge of a tangle of rusted junk. When Celes turned the corner he looked up sharply and held a hand up to stop her.

"It's okay! There was something hiding under there. I think I scared it."

And caused an avalanche of scrap and disused equipment in the process. There were fewer and tamer monsters roaming the world, these days, but they were far from gone entirely. From the look of it, it might be more accurate to say that it had scared him. His face was white in the dim light. He didn't move to stand from where he had fallen against the far wall.