Her eyes flash in an instinctive response of anger and defensiveness; she's not used to being told 'no', clearly. After a few tense moments, however, the spell recedes, partly out of reluctance, and partly out of her not wanting to lose the comfortable blanket it provided. She winces almost immediately; and he can see why; one thing the reports didn't inform him is that she's a decent, and partly uncontrolled, empath, and the emotions around her are rubbing raw her still-fresh wounds.<br/><br/>Her history mostly matches what she said, although the truth is a little more humiliating; she'd attempted to betray her superior, but not only was he aware of it, he let her proceed as if he didn't know, feeding her false information and stringing her along, until he finally blew her entire, well-designed, but ultimately-flawed scheme apart in a rapid series of humiliations, that ended with her in the prison.