Ben hates this. He can't remember the last time he felt this helpless and trapped. He presses himself into that corner, Cole blocking him in securely, and does his best to just breathe slowly and silently. But that's hard, when he catches a glimpse of something searching through that crack. For a crazy minute he thinks it is an eye, but he isn't really sure because he closes his own, squeezing them tight, afraid the reflection off them or any more movement of them might give them away.

When the light dims, whatever was searching here moving away, Ben lets out a long, slow breath. He can feel himself shaking from head to foot.

Then he opens his eyes and sees blood on Cole's face, and the terror is back, in an entirely new form. He barely holds back a little wordless noise of surprise and worry, reaching up to touch Cole's bloody upper lip. All at once his emotions are a roiling chaos of affection and fear and confusion and guilt.

Barely even whispering, he breathes, "Cole, you're bleeding."

Cole is hurt and he can't be hurt and Ben doesn't know what he should do or how serious it is. Do they wait out whatever phenomenon has brought them here? For how long? What if something came and blocked up that crack and they were trapped in here? How are they going to get out of this?