You can hear his breath hitching with terror as you approach; but the very human hush from your lips, and perhaps his eyes finally able to resolve the silver corona of your hair like the cusp of a lunar eclipse, calms him as he makes the critical determination that you are not one of them.

"My leg..." he whispers quietly, desperately, and you see what he means; the fall has battered and scratched him all over but he came down on one leg harder than the other.. He's dislocated his leg at the hip, which will not kill him but leave him with a menacing ache in later life once you get him out of here and have a chance to enlist Bella's help in repositioning it.

One more thing catches your eye; grooving in the curved face of the wall behind the boy, around a large piece of stone set into the surface like a mounted gem. It doesn't gleam like a gem with the trickle of light you can access - perhaps some kind of quartz or marble, though? But it is raised from the surface of the stone, around waist height to you standing, conspicuous and inviting touch.