This is a truly strange turn of events for Hawks, because what the hell are these shoppers even doing, but it's not anywhere near the most dangerous things he's ever seen. He's not even really breaking a sweat doing this. He's just glad to be useful for once! He's felt like he's not really very heroic on these islands.

Okay, this isn't really heroic in his mind either, but he's helping Kyle not get trampled by shopper zombies, so he's gonna take this as a win.

"Lucky us," he says.

Hawks hovers for a second so he can catch Kyle if he slips. Once Kyle is up in the vent, he pulls himself in. It's not the most comfortable thing, of course. His wings don't work like normal bird wings; he can control his feathers with telekinesis (no the rules don't make sense, it's fine), so he can get his wings pretty close in against him. Still, this isn't his first choice.

"Yeah, I'm all right. This isn't my fave! But I couldn't find another way outta that shit show down there. Are you okay? No sudden urges to buy things on clearance or anything?"