With Ben's help, Paige Summers and Sheldon Reid successfully made it out of the tunnel.
Ben was the name Paige Summers had given the zombie. He had provided her with so much goodwill energy—far more than any human ever had. Besides, he'd been helping her constantly. She couldn't just keep calling him "Zombie."
Ben meant "friend."
The tunnel exit didn't open onto level ground, but onto the face of a cliff.
However, this wasn't a problem for Paige Summers. She used her Hook Claw to quickly scale the cliff and reach the top. Ben followed her, and Sheldon Reid was the last to make it up. Ben couldn't speak, and Sheldon, fuming, said nothing. As a result, Paige had no idea that Sheldon had been unceremoniously shoved into third place.
Thankfully, despite their sorry state, all three of them made it to the top safely.
