Don't hang around a human lie detector if you don't want the truth, Han. Not that she isn't trying to be gentle, but. It's hard to act against her own nature.

She's embarrassed and upset to have hurt him. He doesn't deserve that. However much she admires the heroes of her world and others and even loves a few of them, her first and truest relationship was with the semi-reformed god of mischief and lies. She really isn't the good girl some people have mistaken her for. Fear and apathy have made her obedient, to a point. It doesn't take much more than a willing partner in crime to spark her own mischievous side.

The ways that people can hurt you are usually the ways in which people can help you, too. That's what makes life such a gamble.

"It helps," she admits quietly, "to have nice memories to keep me company."