"No, no one did t-this," Kieren manages, still trembling a little given how shaken up he'd been about the whole thing. He leans back against the counter, shoulders slumped forward. "I was just trying to get home, I went through a back alley, and I...I..." Kieren's struggling to get out the words, trying to figure out how to put this properly.

"There was something there, like a dog or a wolf or something," he says, "I think I startled it, it was scared, I think."