Quicksand -- ah, that he knew about, but he could hear it a little in her voice the slight frustration with her inability to use her full potential as she probably would have been able to do so back in her world.

"Pray don't worry about the quicksand. We've got our resonation attack now, and I am quite sure you can deal with this one just as we did that last one."

Meaning of course, that it would be best to go on ahead to attack it first, before it could launch an attack of its own.