[Shen's not a fox either, but that's not stopping him....]

[There's a long pause as Shen ponders the question. He toys with the feather in the bottle.]

[Eventually, however, even though simply declaring the conversation over and going back to work seemed like a viable option he scrapes the words together to answer in a rather pensive murmur.]

Yes. I know why I did it. But rest assured that nothing like it will happen again.