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At the sound of the voice, the hand clenched a little tighter around the youth's own form of 'insurance'. As expected, or half-expected at the least, someone was around to answer back. Those footsteps hadn't been a sign of safety at all.
"I could offer you the same reprimand. As my current attempted kidnapper, you're far more suspicious than I." Their own voice never changed from its near-whispered tone, just as it never did. "And so, I would ask similarly of you before you receive any answer of mine. Why would you take a bag not belonging to you? Especially one containing a trapped child? That's rather an unpleasant setup in itself."
At the sound of the voice, the hand clenched a little tighter around the youth's own form of 'insurance'. As expected, or half-expected at the least, someone was around to answer back. Those footsteps hadn't been a sign of safety at all.
"I could offer you the same reprimand. As my current attempted kidnapper, you're far more suspicious than I." Their own voice never changed from its near-whispered tone, just as it never did. "And so, I would ask similarly of you before you receive any answer of mine. Why would you take a bag not belonging to you? Especially one containing a trapped child? That's rather an unpleasant setup in itself."