Eying Keldon, Xuuvosic replies, "Ain't any way around it. If we don't 'port out, we'll have no fucking bargaining position, mostly from being dead. And Chokes-On-Dick probably didn't see Raoul, so he might not know that anybody got out at all."
The moment everyone else is in the pit, X. teleports to a random stretch of desert on the far side of the planet, aiming mostly for ... nighttime.