You think so? [he chuckles, tucking his hands into his pockets.] It's just something I learned one day when I was bored. Glad it could come in handy.

[that, at least, isn't a lie. it had seemed like a neat trick, so he'd taught it to himself and saved it as just another mildly interesting if useless talent.]

We might want to move away though, before anyone can put a name to your face and then make this into a bigger deal than it is.