[Thankfully Nahyuta can hear him, though there's a slight delay before he gets a reply, echoing back down and into the tunnel.]

Pohlkunka! There's a way out of here, but it's rusted shut. We'll have to find another route. [Really, which one of them is cursing them with this terrible luck? Surely not Nahyuta, when he has the Holy Mother guiding him.] I am coming back down!

[Whiiich is going to take another minute or two, aka another hour or two.]