I'd bet on it having something to do with the Darkness Astoria was talking about. Not that that helps much.

[ Darkness can take a lot of forms, after all. ]

You know what's great about horror movies? [ He says a moment later, turning his head to grin. It could read as pretty tone-deaf to Quentin's discomfort, but he has something else in mind. ] They're simple. You escape the bad guys and take them down.

[ No moral ambiguity, no sad merpeople looking at them with hopeful eyes, no weighing complicated choices about who gets to live. Whatever happened to the crew here is already in the past and out of the Circle's hands. ]

There are worse places to be than a horror movie. Maybe all we'll have to deal with is a space monster.