"Don't worry about it. I'm the one that's supernaturally equipped to know what makes people and things tick. Couldn't be what I am otherwise."

It wasn't ego if it was true. How could she possibly be what she was, do what she did, if she didn't have that innate ability to find out and understand what made people, gods, and any other being do the things it did. You can't con what you don't understand. You can't trick if you don't know that the other party really wants in life.

"But sooner or later, I'm sure I'll take you up on that."