She didn't want the lie to be the truth though. She liked the truth and not the lie. Nothing about Mae said 'be normal'. Normalcy was just... beyond her and it always had been from birth. Being born to war did not lead to a normal life.
<"Aye, you taught me. But you're not the only one who did. My parents did. All the others did in their own ways... You didn't teach me to enjoy it. To get off on it."> She had never denied that she found pleasure in killing.