He gave her another smile and thanked her before steering Five towards a spot in the waiting room, letting his hand fall away from Five's shoulder, knowing that he got prickly about being touched.

He shook his head a little at the question, "No, I mean, everybody knows when I'm lying, and that's all acting is, right? It's easy when it's mostly true." Even if it was something he had to make true himself, like with slapping Five in the face at Meritech. This time it just happened to be more true, because Five had found the dog, did want to make sure no one else already owned it and definitely wanted to keep it. Klaus had just embellished a little in ways designed to garner sympathy, because that was something he was good at.