Felix lowers the bottle and listens carefully. So carefully. Clearly being a mage doesn't give you the ability to immediately detect bullshitting, because he's taking in every detail. Even with Freddy's caveat about not knowing what was real.

"Interesting." He seems sincere about that. He takes another drink of the beer and doesn't even react to the taste this time. "That's very interesting. Are deer important wherever you're from? Are you- were you a hunter?"