Oh.

[Funny, how there can be so much gravity in a single word. Funny how two letters can so easily frame an obvious elephant in the room.

Luckily, there's an easy way to divert the subject; a little verbal sleight of hand, and there was never a pachyderm at all.]

I mean, I'm not one to talk. I wasn't cooking for myself, either. It was all caf food.

[...]

That's actually. That's where we were going, the last time I was, um. We were all going to the caf, when the old man snatched us.