Possible Clues:

• Comes up to
• Within earshot, gets closer within
• Gets bigger, visually
• Appears bigger and bigger
• Comes close to having a listening device fitted in quarters
• Approaches indefinite number of spikes
• Isn't far from reaching
• Gets close to one arsonist in prison
• Approaches home having lost time crossing a river
• Approaches are awkwardly made between opposite quarters