"I'd appreciate it. Climbing out of here would be quite the ordeal."

Shen Yuan accepts the hand with gratitude. "Are you perhaps a recent arrival?" he asks as they ascend at a comfortable rate, the sheer depth of the well giving them plenty of time to chat. "I've been keeping an eye out for other cultivators since I arrived here in Trench this past summer; you're only the third I've met so far, and only the first had definitely arrived here before me."