Cosette is looking blank. Earnestly sympathetic! But... blank.
She's never heard of trillium. (Because Cosette knows very little of non-European flowers.) Perhaps it's a magic flower? That would make as much sense as anything.
"That's quite a long time!" she agrees, sympathetically. (How long is a squirrel's lifespan, anyway? She has no idea.) "No wonder the gardeners are careful."
How do you ask a stranger, who also happens to be a talking squirrel, whether he in fact committed the crime he's accused of? But he seems such a nice squirrel that surely it must have been an accident if he did. Right?
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She's never heard of trillium. (Because Cosette knows very little of non-European flowers.) Perhaps it's a magic flower? That would make as much sense as anything.
"That's quite a long time!" she agrees, sympathetically. (How long is a squirrel's lifespan, anyway? She has no idea.) "No wonder the gardeners are careful."
How do you ask a stranger, who also happens to be a talking squirrel, whether he in fact committed the crime he's accused of? But he seems such a nice squirrel that surely it must have been an accident if he did. Right?