"I reserve biting for the most heinous of individuals, and from where I'm standing, you don't look particularly heinous." Or threatening, but he's not about to say that part out loud. He might be impatient and sometimes a little uncouth, but he's not that uncouth, is he? He likes to think he isn't, anyway.
"That is a very suspiciously convenient backstory. Not that I think you had anything to do with it, because you'd be a lot more nervous if you did and you were trying to deflect suspicion. Before I came here, I was in Portland, so that just confirms your theory that everyone here is from all over the place." But he does mean to confirm that for himself, because that's just what he does.
"The Library. It's- Well, the Metropolitan Public Library, to be exact." Except that's not the exact answer at all, but until he's figured out more about this man's intentions, he's not intending to divulge too much right away. But he can at least lay down a trail of breadcrumbs as a way of figuring that out. "What's the strangest thing you've ever heard? A story, a fact, anything that's so unbelievable, it has to be made up."
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"That is a very suspiciously convenient backstory. Not that I think you had anything to do with it, because you'd be a lot more nervous if you did and you were trying to deflect suspicion. Before I came here, I was in Portland, so that just confirms your theory that everyone here is from all over the place." But he does mean to confirm that for himself, because that's just what he does.
"The Library. It's- Well, the Metropolitan Public Library, to be exact." Except that's not the exact answer at all, but until he's figured out more about this man's intentions, he's not intending to divulge too much right away. But he can at least lay down a trail of breadcrumbs as a way of figuring that out. "What's the strangest thing you've ever heard? A story, a fact, anything that's so unbelievable, it has to be made up."