Qebhet faltered, realising too late her error. Qebhet had lived all over the country, but Beti, the person Genesis thought she was— well, she'd gone to mortuary school in California, and her birth certificate said... Houston, it was Houston, only now she'd hesitated too long to answer and it would sound like the lie it was—
It was only a split second, not quite the glaring blunder that it felt like to Qebhet, though long enough that Genesis might have glimpsed the flicker of uncertainty. "Houston, originally," she said, "but I've lived in a lot of places. New Mexico, Orlando, New Orleans for a while... You're from Louisiana, right?" She hoped the deflection wasn't too obvious.