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"I lied to them so that they wouldn't be frightened and possibly think of us as some sort of accomplice--or led them to their deaths," Leo said as he came up on Shizan in the area where they were supposedly going to bury the dead. "I wanted them to cooperate and didn't know what their reaction would have been if I would have told them the truth. For all I know they'd be in your father's territory right now if they would have freaked out on us."