Cutty took a few steps back stepping around Minerva as Tora approached to show his reluctance to be anywhere near her. A sentiment which had been true the day she'd shoved and shouted at he and his friend Benzi in the corridor. She was, as his father might put it, 'a piece of work', uttering statements contradictory to her actions. Only mad people did that, or perhaps liars. Neither of which, Cutty really minded when you got down to it, but given the situation he had to protect himself. And he did that in the only way a small snake knows how.
"She put it there! She put it there after she snatched it out of my hands!" He explained in between small huffs. "And she even lost my page too." He said all extra-sad.