[He is absolutely trying to play hero, considering he comes up to Dixon, reaching a hand out while the man is still on the ground.]

Me? What about everyone else here?

Me and Mr. Harper wound up in the hills together and ended up fighting some sorta undead thing [Is he smoothing this over on purpose? Kinda. Yes. Absolutely.] and after that ended up heading toward this big hill and saw all those... things and the people in the cloaks heading this way. We didn't get here in time to warn anyone and I got separated from him.

I don't know why they're after everybody here but we can't let that happen, since it can't be for anything good.

[Small child. Inspiring words. It might be helped by the slightly fluttering cape.]