Lamp gazed at Jay through the eye-holes in its human skin… and slowly shook its head.

"Ah, I guess not?… What could make a skeleton retreat?"

Jay stepped away from the top of the stairs, paranoid as he was, and sent Lamp down again - except this time, he used the mana-hungry [Host] skill, entering the eyes of Lamp and seeing through its eyes; Lamp came back safely, but there was no assurance that he would.