Dane shrugged, looking helpless. "I don't know! I'm a hacker, not a spy or some shit like that, I deal with intrusion in cyberspace, not meatspace!" he replied. "Better answer it somehow though. If she doesn't answer they'll assume something bad happened and probably sound the alarms. Tell them she had to go home and she had you take over for her or something. Tell them that she didn't say why either, that way you won't say anything that will alert them to the lie right away."