Stajduhar gave every indication that he was in extreme pain immediately, yelling and desperately waving his hands. It was distressing to watch. His teammates looked at his leg and waved frantically for medical to come with anguished looks on their faces. My point is it was obvious to him and everyone around he had a terrible injury requiring immediate attention and special care.
Malachi was outwardly very different. He did not indicate anything close to that level of pain. For a while I even hoped he would walk it off, or maybe just need a week to recover. I have to think his leg showed less outward signs of the break and he felt less pain, otherwise he and his teammates are stoics of previously unseen capabilities. I think that although he could not put weight on the leg he thought at first it was a much lesser injury so he wanted to show strength and walk off at least partly by his own power.
