[Well that's a question. A good question, and he can guess at the reason for it, but how is he going to answer that?
Very, very obliquely, that's how.]
I was in Egypt, talking to my friends.
[Or he had been a few seconds before what he was actually doing, anyway. So it's a smooth enough lie, but depending how good Takoda is at noticing something like that, it may still be apparent that it's not the whole truth.]
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Very, very obliquely, that's how.]
I was in Egypt, talking to my friends.
[Or he had been a few seconds before what he was actually doing, anyway. So it's a smooth enough lie, but depending how good Takoda is at noticing something like that, it may still be apparent that it's not the whole truth.]