Stealing Stories for the Devil

Deceptions. Fabrications. Misrepresentations, shall we say? Yeah, you probably tell plenty of those, but thats not the cool stuff. No, were talking aboutyourkind of lyingwhen you lie to reality. Because heres the thing:It always works. The guard gets too caught up in her Sudoku game? You say it, it happens. Theres road work blocking the bad guys getaway route? Yep. A massive blackout plunges all of Paris into darkness? Sure. Reality is your plaything. If you can think it, it happens.

Thats not to say that lies have no consequences. Lying is stressful, and the bigger the lie, the more stressful it gets. Small lies? You can usually pull them off without much cost. Bigger lies can actually hurt you. Lie big enough, and you could pay the ultimate price. So blacking out all of Paris is a pretty dangerous ployunless you happen to know some specific weakness of the grid. Some tiny little lie that sparks big consequences.

But, hey, youre great at that sort of thing. Thats why youre the one saving reality!