I would have went and solved it, but I didn't think it was important.
And blurting out the answer to a riddle when the grown-up in the room is raging over the fact that it's just a riddle seems kind of...odd. Certainly out of character.
It was
supposed to be one of those moments where the seemingly innocuous detail is skimmed over by the 'smart' character and the young/inexperienced/carefree/simpleminded/blockheaded character focuses upon it, solving a key problem or opening a secret door that the group was looking for. >.>
Its not odd at all. You're a kid dude. Kids get distracted and do things when adults aren't looking. He's mad because it looks like its just a simple child's riddle, and it is, but its just camouflage (which apparently worked a bit too well..). Its
more than it appears to be, and you should be interested in it because you're a child and it would take you a good bit of thinking to solve it.
In-character? You treated the riddle like an adult whom a simple math problem like that would come easy to. Definitely not in-character. :l
Yes. Just now. Remember? The sorceress and her thirteen children and all the critters in the cave?
You didn't solve it in character just yet. You were in the process of solving it, that is when you ran out of fingers and were preparing to count on your toes, because I was making a joke about how the, for all intents and purposes, smart character is bad at maths.