[Geir doesn't keep secrets for himself, but he'd keep one for Vern, if Vern asked him to. he's not actually sure that Vern minds him talking about it, but remembering Vern's nightmares, the grave dirt and the shadows, he's not sure how much Vern would want people to know in detail if he hadn't told them himself. it's Vern's own secret bitterness, like a wound to defend.]

And me.

[from the very first time Geir spoke, it was clear Vern didn't know quite what to do with him.

more broodingly, after another pause:]

We didn't decide not to start Ragnarok right away. I bit a couple of roots first. I wonder how they're doing.