Veiled had been so focused on the trapped creature and figuring out how to free it that the voice of another made him jump, though he tried to hide it quickly enough.
"
Ah, yes, thank you," He stammered before clearing his throat and donning the resemblance of neutrality, "
You're certainly right."
He paced once more in front of the pile, searching for strengths and weaknesses. He didnt want the structure to collapse onto the poor creature after all.
"
I startled it," He confessed as he focused on his current task, "
It ran into this thicket here and suddenly everything shifted trapping it inside. It's my fault." The last sentence, if one were to truly listen, could hear the guilt through the crafted indifference.
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