[Geir likes the story very much, but Jay is telling parts of it as personal anecdotes, and that, to him, is the measure of Jay's unease.

he wonders what a fool looks like to Jay. he supposes he's never really chased his own definition of the word to ground, though he has a couple of competing examples of things other people have told him are foolish; he himself isn't the least of those examples, according to Loki.]

He made it after all--!