[he stares griffin in the eye, thinking through the options. it was a binary. lie, or tell the truth. it wouldn't even need to be a convincing lie, would it? and telling the truth was never really an option in the first place.

it really was just lie... or lie convincingly. He could do that much. He was painfully aware that, well, griffin tended to take things at face value. it wasn't fair to ask him to deal with Jason. to deal with someone who was always thinking in terms of half truths, and paranoia.

a beat too long.]

I don't know.