"You don't know how good it is to hear something other than scratching. Hang on."

Ferrus heard what was unmistakably the sound of someone pushing furniture out of the way of a door, then two overweight men in their thirties or forties in blue coveralls and a teenager with a leather jacket over the same coveralls emerged. The younger of the three was clearly the one from the earlier post. If he find's Ferrus's appearance strange, he's not going to mention it since the guy may have just saved their lives.