[Felix doesn't really care one way or the other whether she believes him - it's not like he can prove it. He just figured it would ease her mind to know that nothing was happening in Fodlan without her, as it had for the rest of them, and that she wouldn't be making some grave mistake if she said the wrong thing to the wrong person.

He looks at her with confusion, and just a hint of irritation.]

You can, you're just choosing not to, for reasons I don't understand. But what do you mean, the monastery wasn't safe? It was empty. Until Dimitri turned it into his own personal abattoir for Imperial intruders, anyway.

['Dimitri,' not 'the boar,' and there's far less venom in his tone now than there would have been before - though who knows whether Rhea paid enough attention to any of them to know the change is notable.]