[Axel]

Originally Posted by Vox

But only a living creature can hide, as hide is an active verb and presupposes an action done by the thing doing the hiding. A person can hide, an animal can hide, but an object cannot hide itself. Now if they had said "lie unused," that would make sense, since "lie" is passive.

:3 ohh the vagaries of English...

Sweety... that's called personification. It happens a lot with inanimate objects in writing.