"I've, ah - been gone from my Home for a while. I'm trying to find my way back," he adds, which is the perfect truth, if severely simplified, "but it doesn't hurt to stay somewhere safe for a bit with good food - which is where the tabs come in, that's how you pay. Or don't pay, as the case may be. You order what you like and they keep track of what you owe, and sooner or later you're meant to pay up."
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"I've, ah - been gone from my Home for a while. I'm trying to find my way back," he adds, which is the perfect truth, if severely simplified, "but it doesn't hurt to stay somewhere safe for a bit with good food - which is where the tabs come in, that's how you pay. Or don't pay, as the case may be. You order what you like and they keep track of what you owe, and sooner or later you're meant to pay up."