The judder of the platform settling had jolted Val forward, face too close to the basin of blood. As he now pushes back, he sees Tony's work result in a genuine development and makes a noise of excitement. Given the muffling effects on the chamber, this comes out to no more than a ">!!" before he shoves back and clambers to the third disk, and begins shoving at the third disk.

Blood loss and one blood slippery hand makes this a slow process. He works to move that disk so that the large partial notch on disk three batches up with the small partial notch on disk two.