Just as the knight had reached the party, he had to evade smoke bombs. And that was a pain in itself. Then he had to evade a blue flame before he could crouch down behind Cliff because that was the first person that he'd seen.

"What in the name of the heavens is going on with these geese?"

Hendrik has absolutely no clue what's up with the birds. All he knew was that it was a nice quiet day and now there's a party of people apparently aligned against them.