Well, to step across the truth is something like wandering across a shed snake skin. The first sight makes your shiver at its dangerous slimy body, alerting you to be aware of yourself and the environs around you, worrying whether it might attack now or then, but on a much dared closer inspection you find it to be just a snake skin shed off by a massive beast, letting the fear of death subside, but the fear of fear still lingers on.

That is how truth can show itself, portray dangerously, like a bomb about to go off, and when you had already a false cover up in place for what had happened, it seems much more ferocious.