Her insides went cold. It wasn't the kind of guess she was expecting. She wasn't prepared to come up with a complex, detailed lie, though, and she couldn't deny her guilt. She didn't have that right.

"It's, uh," she started, forcing the words out through a throat that was trying to close, "maybe, a bit bigger than that. And a fair bit more complicated." She stared at a single tree in the distance, trying not to remember fire, gunshots and screams.