"He's gone.
There's no danger.

He was as afraid of us as you were of him.
He ducked, like a mud-turtle, as soon as he saw we weren't the people he expected.

Stay here, please.

And face this way.
That's the direction we were going in, and we don't want to get turned around.

I've got to crawl about on all fours for a while, in the merry quest of the flashlight.