Of course, Phei only said what they wanted to hear.
Not everything he said was false, which was the useful part. Lies were fragile little things, especially beneath cameras and lights and an audience eager to smell blood like respectable vultures in formal wear.
Half-truths, on the other hand, were sturdier creatures; they carried enough bone from reality to stand upright on their own, and dressed beautifully enough, they could stroll straight through public judgment without anyone stopping them at the door.
That was why Phei answered the way he did — not because the anchor had extracted honesty from him through clever questioning (God forbid; the man was about as subtle as a knife wrapped in perfume) but because Emily and Ashworth had already settled, between them, on the direction this interview needed to travel.
Ashworth wanted it to mark the era of change beginning at Ashford Elite Academy.
