[He can see that preening and that only makes him like Feliks right from the get-go.]

I'm sorry to say it was fairly predictable stuff. Generalized slurs, that sort of thing - it makes you despair, it really does. Mainly toward your faith, what with religion being outlawed in Volstov, and of course toward your sexuality... or rather, what was being assumed about your sexuality. We're not the most forward country when it comes to those matters either.

[A small laugh, just the tiniest bit brittle, but credit where it's due, he rallies fast.]

Oh, and some suggestions that you are a secret agent of the American government, for that extra hint of outright paranoia.