Still an incredibly contrived scenario. Distracting Hermes? From doing what, exactly? He can't beat anyone with Emet, Venat or ourselves present so what was he going to do in that time that they needed to stand there for? And it really doesn't matter about the semantics of "how fast is Emet's horse?" when they can literally teleport anywhere in the blink of an eye and do so earlier in the dungeon. It was just one of many illogical moments meant to wring some emotion from the audience. Let's say goodbye to Emet-Selch and his sad smile one more time (for now) but here, we'll have you reach out longingly for him as well. Isn't this heartbreaking???!1

The entire Elpis portion of the story was clumsy and poorly conceived. Nothing to be done now, but I do hope they try to write a better story in the future.