I'll know if it's true or not. Knowing the truth itself and knowing if it's not the truth are different. Something isn't merely a truth or a lie, there are a lot of inbetweens.

[ Loki explains, holding his hands out as if they're weighing lies.

he worked in lies. all kinds of lies. stories, exaggerations, rhetoric, and omission. it was just skimming the surface of what he could do. there were lies of comfort and lies of malice, there were omissions (Hiro's favorite, he found) and there were always ways to make the good sound bad and the bad sound seductive. he didn't discount their use. ]

So, the spire. Come up with something better. I'm in a mood to be convinced.