Upon re-reading, I just realized a nice, kinda subtle detail about this page. Shoebills are terrible at flying and can't keep it up for very long at all. If you know that, it goes some way toward explaining why Shoebill is so used up here, and the fact that she even made it all the way from the plains to the lake really drives home the urgency of her message.
*Pant!*
*Pant!*Hm?
*Flap!*
Wha-
what happened?!*Pant!*...
*Pant!**Gasp**Gasp*Moose-sama...
is...He... lp.