Kit turns quickly at the sound of Ben's voice, not swift enough to dislodge the girl from his arm but fast enough still to find his particular friend with his eyes. "I'm over here," he calls back, and lifts a hand up to wave towards him.

(After years enough of hiding in plain sight, he masks his anxiety well, but seeing it written so plainly on Ben's face--)

"...It's not safe for us all to be lingering here, or trying to enter."

"You sure there's nobody down there?" The question comes out of him reluctantly--frankly he'd rather be back at home than lingering here at the mouth to the mines--but now that Leala's put the thought in his head, he can't shake it.