Just before? The edge of the forest, in front of the village. A group of hunters'd been skulking around, getting too close. They were planning something later.
[There's a pause. When he resumes he sounds slow, thoughtful.]
Your pack were there. They knew it too, didn't they, that they needed to be stopped. You knew it. I never really considered you.
Perhaps we were there at the same time. East side of the village. More undergrowth, mostly young trees - don't get the older ones until you go deeper inside, the parts of the forest the humans seldom go. You know the look of it, I'm sure.
That is what you'd meant to be doing, isn't it, you and your pack? You were there for the hunters?
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[There's a pause. When he resumes he sounds slow, thoughtful.]
Your pack were there. They knew it too, didn't they, that they needed to be stopped. You knew it. I never really considered you.
Perhaps we were there at the same time. East side of the village. More undergrowth, mostly young trees - don't get the older ones until you go deeper inside, the parts of the forest the humans seldom go. You know the look of it, I'm sure.
That is what you'd meant to be doing, isn't it, you and your pack? You were there for the hunters?