Chris re-crossed his arms, and looked at Phoebe. "Don't you guys trust me enough to let me take care of it?" He sort of figured that the answer would be no, but he wasn't budging.
"There was this green swirling snake skull thing above Casta's house," Pallie said quickly and calmly. "We apologize for not telling you sooner, we thought that we could handle it." She wasn't ratting out Chris specifically. She was using the collective we. We as in all the cousins when really she meant Chris.
Chris opened his mouth to stop her but it was too late. She'd already said it and...wait. She wasn't blaming him. Why wasn't he being blamed?