[The different voice does startle him, if only that he feels he should have predicted that someone else was nearby -- but he heard no other footsteps, no unfamiliar smell. So what...?
That, and he is both more embarrassed than he'd care for and bordering on irritable for the partial truth to the statement.
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That, and he is both more embarrassed than he'd care for and bordering on irritable for the partial truth to the statement.
He looks at D, brow arched just slightly.]
A familiar? Or something else?