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It’s hard to explain without completely dumping my outline in here, but basically, I’m writing a story about how the fox turned red. The thing that gets the fox in trouble is that originally, he is seeking God to know him, but after a group of starlings entice the fox with worldly goods (the sweetest berries and softest feathers), the fox wants to see God to get those items, over seeing God for the good of his own soul.

Eventually the Fox is supposed to realize that he doesn’t need to see God to get what he wants from the starlings, so he lies to them.

I’m at the part where the fox is supposed to realize that he can lie, and I don’t know how to write it. I can’t say that “the Fox realized that he could lie to the Starlings,” because that’s super meh. The POV is close enough to the Fox to see a flash of a thought or two, but I don’t like the narrator too deep into my character’s heads because I like to be able to pan around.

Bottom line: How do I transition naturally into the Fox realizing that he can lie to get what he wants?