[So he wasn't surprised when a hand is placed over the strings. He stops playing, though he feigns a look of mild confusion.
Then he smiled, guileless and sincere.]
Ah, but I don't mind playing more. I've only played the first part of the Three Stanza's on Plum Blossom.
[There is in fact, another part to play! But also you would be forgiven if the travesty heard just now sounded exactly nothing like the famous piece exalting the resilience of plum blossoms in the winter.
Naturally, with that smile and that very enthusiastic offer (he even goes so far as to make a show of trying to shoo his companion away), the foxes are not going to tempt fate.]
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Then he smiled, guileless and sincere.]
Ah, but I don't mind playing more. I've only played the first part of the Three Stanza's on Plum Blossom.
[There is in fact, another part to play! But also you would be forgiven if the travesty heard just now sounded exactly nothing like the famous piece exalting the resilience of plum blossoms in the winter.
Naturally, with that smile and that very enthusiastic offer (he even goes so far as to make a show of trying to shoo his companion away), the foxes are not going to tempt fate.]