"Well, the whole universe is a font of bad ideas. Darkness always eatin' up the light. Keeps the damn light from blinding you, though."

He sounds like there's some poison behind that metaphor, a little bit of anger there.

"Yeah, they gotta have a close eye on the thing. Either way, I think it ain't a great call even showing up at this place. What the hell are they even thinkin'? They get arrested, they're not gonna be doing any of us any damn favors."

Especially him. They have his guns.