After the shot from the rifle, Kael felt most of the weight on him start to disappear as the chickens started to disperse. It was over!! He had fallen over, due to the imbalance caused by the sudden mass change. He looked up to see a figure in a cloak, holding a hand out. He got himself off the ground, brushing the dust off his hoodie. After he got most of it off, he looked back up and grasped the hand, shaking it for a second before letting go. 

"Tha-Thank-Thanks for the he-he-hel-hwl-help." Damnit! Another attack on his speech! Hopefully, whoever it was did not think him a moron. "I swear, it was not my fault." He shoved his right hand into his pocket, searching for the leaf to make sure it was not crushed and that the berries were still intact. What he found though was a gaping hole on the inside of his pants where one of the chickens had pierced though it. He began to breathe much harder and he began to search everywhere on the ground, where he began to mutter:

"Where is it?! Not now! Why now?!"