"Oh those types." Molly looks a little appalled, but only for a moment, before he's back to eating. "No, I can see where you wouldn't want to get involved with that. People really can be bastards sometimes even when you haven't done a damn thing wrong."

He'll avoid recounting Trostenwald- obviously that's a truth, where he can make up lies. And he has a good one for that. "My parents, gods bless them, said to me when I was wee- they said, 'Mollymauk, my love, you can be hateful and rude and vengeful to people who hurt you, or you can just keep smiling, 'cause the best revenge you'll ever get is showing the awful people in the world your teeth in a way they can't twist to fit their narrative.'"