He was not going to lie, for a brief second Aiden thought that his patronus would not work and he and the boy would be done for. Sure he may have been able to run if worse came to worst but he could not stomach the thought of leaving that little boy there, crying and screaming the way he was. It was simply not in his nature.

Luckily it glided off and he could take this boy....or not. It was a not. The Pukwudgie boy walked over to the boy that had collapsed there on the forest floor. This was just his luck. Stick him with some kid whose parents obviously didn't care enough about then have the kid pass out.

If they had told him there would be a dementor here today, Aiden would have brought along some chocolate. As it stood, he was not in the habit of randomly carrying around sweets in his pocket in the same way he did not take smelling salt or other forms of quick waker uppers with him. Not to mention the prior would not wake up an unconscious person even if he did have it. One might argue that one should be prepared for everything but in all his research he had not heard anything about dementors residing in this forest. Acromantulas he was ready for. Thestrals he was prepared to appease. The heard of hippogriffs were noted; not dementors.

Frustrated at his own inability to do very much for the boy, while at the same time being satisfied he was out and could not whine or cry or scream and make this competition harder for him, Aiden cast a quick feather light charm on the boy then scooped him up.

No way around it, he would have to get him out of the forest then figure his next move. The entrance was....that way if he remembered correctly.