[He wasn't wrong. Armand might ask a question he didn't want to answer. At least not truthfully. But he'd gotten pretty good at lies.]

I'm a historian. Specifically I'm an ancient language expert, Old High German, Aramaic, Etruscan, Ancient Greek, what have you. I translate old tomes, that kind of thing.

[His answer wasn't a lie, it was what he did now, anyway.]