Song of the Heavens quest question

[Crucis]

This seems like a dumb question, but here goes.

 

How do you get the songbird from the home in Heartsong?  In my last party, I couldn't get it peacefully.  Every time I opened the container where the bird was, the game instantly, the home owner instantly went into dialog mode and there was no option to get the bird that I could see.  Can you get the bird without killing the people in the home?  Or is this a quest that requires a high attribute to trigger the only peaceful way to get the bird, like high RES?

 

In my last party, I didn't want to kill the people in the house and risk hurting my Twin Elms reputation, since my Rogue was a nice, heroic sort.

 

 

[Raven Darkholme]

You have to go for the cruel dialogue.

[Crucis]

Aw, hell.  So are the only two ways of completing this quest are either to use a cruel dialog path or to kill the inhabitants of the house? Oh frickin' joy. 

[Wazz72]

Idk if you have to pass a stat check to be able to, but I did it with the "lying" option - sorry, english is not my mother tongue - where I told the lady in the house that the bird should not be caged and I would set it free. Maybe not the best RP options (I was playing as the good guy at the time) but better than being cruel...