"You're going about this all wrong," she says, "he has a different name here, not one you know; and in any case you won't find him that way—whatsoever you do to the least of my people/i..."
"I understand," he says; it's true and not. Its not-truth means he must report failure to his commander-ally (Dean will not be pleased), and he already knows he hasn't a prayer of convincing his brothers of its truth, but—a new perspective means new possibilities; hope is not yet lost.