'Let's just say' was one of the ways that adults tended to lie. Of course, right after that she told Billy that they weren't lasers but rockets so it wasn't like she was trying to hide a lot. Maybe it was just hard to describe what she did.

"Uh, as long as you don't blow up anything in the city I'm pretty sure no one needs to know what they do," he said. "So do you have the problem of when you get to the edge of city territory, you're suddenly flying the opposite direction?"