Lee looked at the possibly angry man in front of him; how to work around this? "Um...uh, Leoben is a very cagey enemy of my people. He uses words to confuse and defeat people. He's always talking about streams, some kind of metaphor for fate or something I guess. When you mentioned rivers it just kind of clicked wrong in my head that's all."
He wondered how he'd been lucid enough to get all of that out.