Koios saw through the ploy. He knew she suspected, but and that was fine with him, but she didn't need to know what he knew about her, or her friends, or how he knew it in the first place.

He raised a skeptical eyebrow. "Maybe he is, but I've heard what happened in the War of Hearts. I'm not that naive to think that he, or your friends, would take kindly to me because of what happened back then. And why wouldn't he accept you? You weren't the one planning to rewrite the world."