The kitsune doesn't even bother with a verbal reply to his request that she stay still.  What else was she going to do?  She could twitch, but that was about it.  She only hopes the clay hadn't hardened much already as that would only lengthen the process to get her out and she is already very sick of this position.  Being dished as a meal to giant lizards could do that.  As he works his dagger into the clay, she just rests her head back against the ground to do wait.  She finds herself much more patient now, though, given that she's being rescued.  However, that effect reverses as she feels the incision loosening her cocoon, and she begins to try her best to help split the prison and free herself entirely.  Whether his help was needed there or not she isn't sure, but of course she doesn't mind, sitting up as she's finally loosed.  "Wow...you would not believe how much that kind of treatment helps you to appreciate not being a paraplegic...  Hm?"  Almost immediately, the vixen goes to help her seemingly unconscious companion, picking up a nearby sword to begin cutting the gnoll out.  At several times while he's speaking she opens her mouth as if she would respond in some way, but she just closes it again without a sound as he goes on.  Either this particular person loves to hear the sound of his own voice, or he's a bard.  "Ahem," she says, after he finishes.  "No, I wasn't kidding.  I wound up trapped because apparently they thought I'd taste good.  Yes, it's a good thing you and your companions came when you did.  I appreciate the compliment.  And yes, I was hired by a Surkil to come here to look for artifacts."