It was true in some Imperial brigs. He knew that, he'd pulled enough data out of their systems to have learned it, but he couldn't be sure that would always be the case. He was being paranoid, and he knew it. But at the same time, why would he assume sloppy Human practices would be followed here?

And yet, he could see no sign of a lie. He wasn't perfect with reading faces, but like most, he'd been trained first to analyze other chiss, before he had been selected for a foreign assignment. He knew the basic tells, and had been trained to suppress them in himself.

And yet it was hard not to respond when he was addressed in Cheunh.

He couldn't say anything. But he could still respond: A small, subtle gesture of understanding, one that he'd never seen Humans do, only chiss. "I don't know what you just said," he lied.

And after a further second of consideration, switched to Sy Bisti. "This might be better."