[if there's one thing that Geir is familiar with, it's whether someone has free will in any situation or not, and whether or not they have the power to make a decision. he's spent most of his life without power over what he'll ultimately do or where his life was going except in the most minor details, and really, his last few months in the coven have been one long headache of trying to figure out whether he has the power to make any decision for himself at all. the heartache of it is familiar to him. but even more than that, he has a keen sense of the power dynamics of a situation -- and how throwing power over others around works.

he may have been forthright, but he knows that's not what he did, and he's both hurt and confused by the accusation. even more than that, he's wary; this unknown coven member is jumping on an innocent request in a dramatic way that's designed to make him back down and search his soul for something he hasn't done, and he doesn't know what motive she has for deliberately throwing him off his balance like that. his voice, previously friendly and interested, chills to something cooler.]

Uh, no. You heard my voice over Qri's thing, saying you really should help. You should! We're trying to do something cool. I'm not threatening you. I'm not saying you have to. I'm not taking away your ability to decide at all. If I had, you'd be helping already, and we wouldn't be talking about this.

If I said it in a way you didn't like, I'll apologize, maybe! But I'm not going to pretend I did something I didn't.