Why did he lie? That was a question that Gabriel didn't think he could answer, one that he couldn't bend the truth around and manage to respond to without breaking it in two. But, maybe... "Probably because he didn't think that he was lying," Gabriel said with a thoughtful expression as he dug into the recesses of his mind for some sort of example. "Have you ever thought that something had happened only to find out later that what you thought was going on actually wasn't what was?" A convoluted question, at best, but Gabriel couldn't think of any better way to ask it. "He thinks that I've done something that I haven't done. Clearly he got the wrong idea somewhere," He said, hugging Noah.
All he could hope that that explanation was good enough and that Noah wouldn't press the issue. Gabriel didn't think that he could manage to explain it again. He knew that Noah wouldn't be able to understand the things that he had done, why he had done them. He was too young to rationalize things like he had. Gabriel wished that he had never gotten old enough to be able to rationalized like he had.