How should you know which statements are half-true and which aren't? Surely it makes no difference to you when you hazard your guesses.
[Lilias declines to reveal any shame for having only half-lied. What would have been really annoying would have been if she'd given a full lie and two half-truths. Surely that would have been more of a cheat than anything.]
It is a half-truth instead of a lie because I can speak five languages... but not only five. Actually, I have mastery of six.
[She states it plainly, but it still comes off as a bit of a brag, after he'd said she couldn't need that many.]
But Egyptian is not one of them. I've not heard of that language before.
[She raises an eyebrow at him, wondering why in the world he would think she might know a language from what she assumes is his own world.]
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[Lilias declines to reveal any shame for having only half-lied. What would have been really annoying would have been if she'd given a full lie and two half-truths. Surely that would have been more of a cheat than anything.]
It is a half-truth instead of a lie because I can speak five languages... but not only five. Actually, I have mastery of six.
[She states it plainly, but it still comes off as a bit of a brag, after he'd said she couldn't need that many.]
But Egyptian is not one of them. I've not heard of that language before.
[She raises an eyebrow at him, wondering why in the world he would think she might know a language from what she assumes is his own world.]