[He tilts his head slightly at the odd clanging sound from Ford's head, wondering if he was imagining it or it was another sort of effect from the doll process they were going through. A reinforcement, perhaps? He wasn't about to question it now, though, and he gestures for Ford to go on ahead.]

You head up first, then. With the way I am now, I'm just going to slow the both of us down, and you're working on a tighter time limit. This way you can get a better idea of the room and what might need investigating, too.

[Though he's not entirely sure himself how soon it'd be until their internal workings got affected, but it was best to be on the safe side for now. Granted, maybe it would have been more practical for him to be the one in front, in case he slipped and fell (and he definitely did not want to break, thank you very much), but he wanted to be as less of a hindrance as possible.]

I'll be right behind you.