failure: Did you fail to deceive them? Was that on purpose?
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You wave and signal to the pilot. He waves and signals back. None of the other citizens know what you said, as they can't read your gestures. Consequently, they assume the worst: that you were communicating, in some private Masterish code, all the city's secret vulnerabilities. But you wouldn't do that. Would you?
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