Veitaru seemed unnerved by Magus's approach and seemed to be slightly paralyzed, not moving in response to his outstretched hands. When he looked away to monologue, he would hear the slight popping noise referred to below, and by the time he looked back she was gone.

Veitaru cricked her neck back and forth, once in each direction with deliberate slowness, causing a slight series of popping sounds. And then she rocked herself forward and onto her feet, once again, just one lean back before going forward. 

She strode over, in slightly faster and more jittery way than absolutely necessary, to a corner in the cliff next to an unusual coloration pattern in the dirt, and began chipping away at the dirt with her dagger, eventually revealing something wooden. Pulling it out, Veitaru had quite some difficult with the feat, often making an inch or two of progress before stopping to catch her breath after a long series of tugs and pulls. Eventually, she got it far enough out that it would easy for a normal sized person to get a grip. Then with a glance and a smirk over at Frore, she asked, "Could you give me a hand? You look to have plenty of physical strength."

As she darted to the side to make more than enough room, she seemed to be contemplating something, and then, after smiling upon deciding upon something, she seemed to work herself up to respond. Then, she spoke up. "Wouldn't it be 'BUT the punchline is going to be so complicated that no one understands it.', without the either?" She seemed inexplicably proud of this correction, with a smug smile on her face.