Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36342497-20180726162715/@comment-34194151-20180807234834

she has no reason to lie to sasuke about that, he was about to die. The sakra analogy is not comparable, as that was a clear case of deceiving the enemy to get an upperhand in battle. I'm pretty sure that Mei's case was one of the cases of the author clearing conveying facts through the character.