[Geir can tell that Jay meant what he says, and he does it the respect of trying to work through it. being alive with Vern is still dicey, for both of them, though they've settled into it more in the coven; being alive without Vern seems impossible. how could Ragnarok fail to start right then and there, in a world so wrong? how could he possibly move past the only thing of value he's ever truly owned, the only person who made him feel he could make someone else happy?

he feels like he knows how Vern felt when his family died, looking at it this way. the feeling that made him want to start Ragnarok. and that's wrong, because a world without Vern in it is terrible and broken; but it's right, because a world that Vern doesn't want to be alive in simply shouldn't be allowed to exist any more.

people make the world worth it. he knows Vern doesn't think as highly of himself as Geir does, for some strange incorrect reason. maybe if you feel strongly enough about yourself as a person, that can make life and the whole world worth it even if you don't have other people to care about.

he examines his own feelings about himself as a potential person to check whether they're strong enough to support this idea. they're mostly "dubious." maybe he is as of yet a bad test case for this.

but Jay himself must value his personhood, his sense of "Jay," highly, in order to believe it.]

Did someone tell you that, once?