R-right? Right! It must be! It's just someone playing a prank! That's all!
[He brightens and manages a sunny smile. That has to be it! It's a little mean-spirited, of course, but maybe it's just someone who lives in the forest having a little laugh at their misfortune and sooner or later that someone will show up and show them how to get out!
That...has to be it...
The smile lasts until the next peal of ethereal laughter echoes through the treetops, flitting from one side of the path to the other over their heads as if branches and leaves are no impediment at all.
Yew squeaks and curls back into a ball.]
Why doesn't it sound like someone playing a prank?
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[He brightens and manages a sunny smile. That has to be it! It's a little mean-spirited, of course, but maybe it's just someone who lives in the forest having a little laugh at their misfortune and sooner or later that someone will show up and show them how to get out!
That...has to be it...
The smile lasts until the next peal of ethereal laughter echoes through the treetops, flitting from one side of the path to the other over their heads as if branches and leaves are no impediment at all.
Yew squeaks and curls back into a ball.]
Why doesn't it sound like someone playing a prank?