" You said you would take me to the road, Brin accused, realising he had been misled. You said you could not lie.

If you had been listening more closely to what I said, the fox explained, looking up at him quite smugly, you'd have noticed I never said anything about the road save that I knew where it lay. Which incidentally is in the opposite direction to that we have come. "

― T.B. McKenzie , The Dragon and the Crow