" Tut! They were justified in their feelings, if not the extremity of their reaction.” He winked with his unglassed eye. “I was doubtless guilty of some indelicate prestidigitation of the dice. My mistake was that I was found out. “If they had actually caught and killed me, of course, I would have been somewhat more upset. "

― Alan Dean Foster , Spellsinger (Spellsinger, #1)