[Geir can certainly sympathize with not understanding words and phrases. there's a tremendous amount he doesn't understand, either -- he might know some phrases, but there are whole realms of normal-person interaction that he's still picking up on.

and Sophie's point about powers really strikes a chord...]

Maybe we'd have to ask Qri for that one. I'd... like to know why mine was picked, too. It's not very like anything I do at home.

[more like the opposite, really -- life instead of destruction. did Qri mean it that way?]