[It's a good lie, but something about the way her body language is at odds with how smoothly she says it sort of makes an alarm go off in the back of Ellie's head. Survival is intricately tied to being able to recognize threats and the way they present themselves across all different sorts of people.
Does she care, really, if a girl her own age is lying about what she's done or where she's from, though? Not really. She has her own secrets she plays close to her chest. So she'll just... play along for now, and not dig too deeply.
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Does she care, really, if a girl her own age is lying about what she's done or where she's from, though? Not really. She has her own secrets she plays close to her chest. So she'll just... play along for now, and not dig too deeply.
She shrugs.]
I went to military prep. I know the type.