But there's another possible answer, one that at first doesn't sound much more likely.

Didn't sound likely at first but think of salmon I suppose.

She could have been working for the Red Court and taken a new contract that just happened to be me, but it didn't sound likely.

"It sounds more likely than the truth, which is that your uncle is hiding from the police."

He sounds a bit more likely, but not much.

That sounded more likely to send it up like a haystack fire.

None of it sounded likely to have happened, but this meant another possibility.

Put that way it didn't even sound likely.

That didn't sound likely to Mourngrym, but he had no training in magic.

Since this place is flowing with energy, the second doesn't sound likely.