Brutus: I uh...
Lilly: Brutus?
Brutus: I gave you the wrong orb.
Astrid: Wrong orb? What do you mean?
Brutus: Well... the truth is... the truth is my one true love never broke up with me. She was sucked through a portal into a horrifying dimension, one that is nothing like your lovely earth. And I have to rescue her. Just like your bird person. So I gave you the orb that opens the portal to the dimension where she is, instead of the one that closes your portal.
Lilly: So you've been lying to us this whole time?
Brutus: No.
Astrid: Isn't it your job to protect us? Help us close this thing? The Portal Protectorate and all?
Brutus: I may have stretched the truth.