Klaus didn't have much better idea, but he at least knew what angle to play, letting Five keep hold of the box with the puppy in it, steering him towards the check-in counter with a hand on his shoulder, giving the woman there an easy smile, "Hi, my kid brother found this puppy under a dumpster? We just want to make sure it didn't run away from anybody, and, obviously, if nobody's actually looking for the little guy, we'd kind of like to keep him? Be good for the kid to have some responsibility, so we'd need to know what we'd have to do so we could, do that?"

Somehow he'd managed to get through all of that without sounding like a complete idiot, without stumbling over his words too badly, and without sounding like he was lying through his teeth and making it up as he went along.