She kissed him and held his hand. The quick simple actions startled the already shaky gunslinger into complete silence as he wonders if he's dealing with another Manifestation. He doesn't have time to ruminate on that long before he's being led into a cellar and he helps to move the box because he needs something for his hands to do before he loses his mind. He'd come to this place on a razor's edge already and now it was slowly getting worse. How long before he breaks he wonders, before he lets these creatures take him to wherever they go when they aren't terrorizing the town.

Once the box is settled against the door, Percy sits on it and begins taking Pepperbox apart making an effort to calm his mind in the only way he knows how. "It's good to see a familiar face," he says quietly as he works because he knows shutting one of his friends out when they are right in front of him never ends well.