Merlin jumped at the sudden alarm in Alfie's voice, being a timid kind of creature, and the older boy's insistence took the wind out of his heart-in-the-right-place sails a little bit. He couldn't just leave though, if something happened and the boy suffered later from his injury then he didn't think he'd be able to live with himself for just leaving him here. "Would you like me to walk you back to your dorm?"