Resposta no universo: A carta que Kitiara passava com um draconiano era uma mistura cuidadosamente elaborada de mentiras e meias verdades.
From "Dragons of Spring Dawning" Book 2 Chapter 2
... Laurana nodded, wordlessly, staring at her hands in her lap.
‘I never told you,’ she murmured in a voice barely audible, ‘I couldn’t . . . I kept hoping . . . Kitiara said . . . said she’d left Tanis in—some place called Flotsam . . . to look after things while she was gone.’
‘Liar!’ said Tas promptly.
‘No.’ Laurana shook her head. ‘When she says we are two women who understand each other, she’s right. She wasn’t lying. She was telling the truth, I know. And at the Tower she mentioned the dream.’
Esta é a única coisa verdadeira nessa conversa. O resto era uma mistura dos caprichos e insultos de Kitiara. Tanis foi forçado a jogar junto com ela, arriscando que seus amigos pudessem ser descobertos, e escapou na primeira oportunidade.
Laurana lifted her head. ‘Do you remember the dream?’
Flint nodded uncomfortably. Tasslehoff shuffled his feet.
‘Only Tanis could have told her about the dream we all shared,’ Laurana continued, swallowing a choking feeling in her throat. ‘I saw him with her in the dream, just as I saw Sturm’s death. The dream’s coming true . . .’
Laurana está vendo seus piores medos ganharem vida. Um Raistlin avisou, nem todas as coisas mostradas no sonho eram verdadeiras.
Laurana was quiet a moment, then, ‘I’m going. I’ll exchange Bakaris.’
Flint heaved a sigh. He had seen this coming.
‘Laurana—’
‘Wait a minute, Flint,’ she interrupted. ‘If Tanis received a message saying you were dying, what would he do?’
‘That’s not the point,’ Flint mumbled.
‘If he had to go into the Abyss itself, past a thousand dragons, he’d come to you—’
Laurana escolhe vir atrás de Tanis, ignorando os perigos envolvidos e colocando tudo em risco. Seu amor por Tanis é claramente mais importante para ela do que todo o resto. Ela escolhe até mesmo ignorar que a mensagem de Kitiara é um engano.
Resposta fora do universo: minha citação favorita de "Sword Of Truth" série de livros de Terry Goodkind:
People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true
Laurana acredita em mentira porque tem medo de ser verdade. Até pessoas inteligentes podem ser enganadas por tais manipulações; uma mulher apaixonada é especialmente vulnerável.