You'd need the friend to be activated by a switch... I may be precondition mad atm, but two pages for the event:

Page 1: Stays still. Turns on switch when you talk to them.

Page 2: Follows Hero (movement type). Precondition is the switch from Pg 1 turned ON.

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Hmmm... where is Crawley? With a name like that methinks it's somewhere down South, because it doesn't sound like a name that would be up here.