The light had exposed the edge he fell from so she sat down and slid down to where he was. He was standing bent a little over when she reached him. Her hand found his powerful upper arm. He wasn’t moving. She would have asked why he didn’t use the flashlight but could see that it was not doing well and assumed that he had used up the battery.
She had seen the light when it was still in the store. She had been shopping with her mother and while she waited she had asked to look at it. It was a somewhat new technology to her and she found it interesting. The ends she discovered could both be unscrewed and she noticed that the light bulb could be replaced with very little effort. When she slid the batteries back into it and threaded it back together the first time it failed to come back on. S
