On closer examination, despite being near the crack leading down into the ground, he doesn't seem to be in danger of stumbling into it.

The large stone has a sword plunged into it. That's what the ginger-haired young man, a boy in his late teens, is fussing over. He's trying to pull it out. Or he was, anyway--he pauses as you touch him and blinks. "Dad? What are you doing here?"