His eyebrows raise. "What, really?"

Here he'd intended to use an expected negative answer to jump off into what people have mistaken him for, but this answer takes up his interest.

"You're not trolling me either, are you? Magic rock people who saved your life?" he asks, head tipping to the side. "You have got to tell me the story behind that, because it has to be massively stupid and amazing, or else your lie is going to unravel at the poorly-sewn seams."

He could believe it, potentially. He's seen plenty of weird shit in life. It's just not his fault that they sound so completely opposite to what he is.