Maya was in shock, she couldn't believe what Fay was telling her, and if he hadn't been a fairy incapable of lying, she would have thought it was all a lie he had invented to separate her from Cassian. She dropped the dagger with which she had threatened Fay, and he took advantage of the moment of confusion to escape.
He hadn't wanted to tell her the truth and knew he would have problems with the queen for revealing who Maya really was, but he had felt compelled to do so.
Maya seemed truly in love with her human lover, and with each passing day, she showed less intention of returning to the land of the fairies. That's why he had started to intervene; he wanted her to stay away from him, otherwise, he would end up suffering a slow and torturous death for not fulfilling the queen's orders
