Cal laughs, shoulders easing slightly at the pleasant response. He pauses long enough to wipe the sweat from his brow as BD gleefully resumes its nosy inspection of the man. The little guy is about as polar opposite of Chopper as any droid could possibly be, and it spits out a cheerful little splat of noises as soon as it's done. The thank you in them is pretty clear, even without being able to understand droid binary.

Looking over the man, Cal is surprised by how calm he seems. Cal is sort of in his own element, and he's still freaking out a little bit. Alright, a lot he hasn't been able to reach anyone on comms, and he's using the difficulty of escaping as a way to distract himself.

"I don't think that's going to help him, buddy," Cal says when the droid backs up to an equal distance between them and shines a bright holo-map of the path they've travelled so far and the place just up ahead. "Sorry, Bedee got some scans from past this wall, it looks like there's a corridor there but it's a straight shot up. How good are you at climbing?"