Evidently he was in something of a dazed condition, if, as K.K.affirmed, his senses were beginning to assume a normal condition after years of darkness.
It was a terrible job getting K.K.down from that elevated place.
The man showed them how best to manage.

He seemed really solicitous, and it could be seen that he had taken quite a liking to K.K.

during their brief intercourse, since the latter had been found groaning on the ground.

Eventually the level below the cliff was attained.

Poor K.K.had groaned many times, hard though he fought to repress the sounds, for it was unavoidable that he should receive many jostlings while being transferred to the lower level.
Then they made their way across the open space, and finally arrived at the waiting car, in which the injured youth was deposited and made as comfortable as the conditions allowed.