He might lie well, but if she couldn't trust her senses, she probably wouldn't trust anything at all. She'd like to make a sarcastic remark about it being hard to visit a doctor when you look like her, but this really isn't the time.

Especially when he rolls out from under her while she's only half-mobile and busy pulling her talons back out of the ground. She can still defend herself and will do so, if necessary, but for a few seconds, she'll be unable to attack.