[He winces a bit with the correction, but it the flicking of his ears indicates that it's more of a volume issue than anything actually concerning.]

Ah-- oh... yeah. That.

[He too clears his throat, scooting back a bit and pulling his legs up to cross in front of him so he can rest his elbows upon his knees.]

I'ma be honest with you, I was really just kinda going along with the story? At least, the way it's told in my world. But there's so many different universes and so many retellings of that particular fairy tale that it's super possible that I don't know squat about you!