Overcoming the surprise, he notices the hesitation to give any reasoning for his presence. It isn't in Ben to press, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of giving his own hint to see if it gets any recognition from Russell.
Motioning loosely with one hand back towards and up into the tree now behind and to the side of him using two fingers, he'll explain, "I got a frantic sort of call about what was happening. After I got here, I helped with a few animals, but I kept hearing something around here. I came back to investigate and apparently one of the chickens got rather high up in a tree."
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Overcoming the surprise, he notices the hesitation to give any reasoning for his presence. It isn't in Ben to press, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of giving his own hint to see if it gets any recognition from Russell.
Motioning loosely with one hand back towards and up into the tree now behind and to the side of him using two fingers, he'll explain, "I got a frantic sort of call about what was happening. After I got here, I helped with a few animals, but I kept hearing something around here. I came back to investigate and apparently one of the chickens got rather high up in a tree."