After the mysterious giant mouse thing, Russell expects to be led to more cave art, or bodies left from the war, or one of the sinkholes, or maybe even a wizened old man offering him a sword. Something dramatic and storytale-ish.

He mutters complaints and ideas to himself, roughly keeping the flashlight on the mouse so he doesn't lose it, but mostly he looks back and forth at the walls for signs of something of the sort.

When he's led instead to a person, and a familiar one at that, he's shocked enough to stop complaining and crouch down next to her. "Hey, what are... Nel? Are you hurt?"