"Please, are you headed to the next town?" Kellen asked, "If you know where it is out of these woods I would love the help! You seem in a hurry so I'll just follow you if that's where you're headed. We both need to heal our pokemon." 

He lost his eye contact with the boy with the Pancham as he noticed the pillar of smoke that seemed to appear up ahead over the trees.
'Oh great...' He thought, 'What else?!'