Lies are an avatar's stock in trade...she's at peace with that, for no liar's motives have ever been so noble as those of her people.

She just didn't know how to separate Bess Houdini's injured pride from her own...he was never hers and never would be, yet knowing he'd bound himself eternally to another woman stung so deep, so hard, that it pierced the veil between soul and energy and buried itself deep in Channing's heart.