[Geir closes his eyes, remembering the exact conversation, both what Julius said and what he took from it. it wasn't that long ago, though he's been chewing over the idea with nothing to apply it to since then.]

He told me he'd done -- something. And that he was going to try to make up for it. "Atone."

[the concept still tugs at him, though he can't tell if it's in a positive or negative way; he's just not sure what he thinks about it.]

He said that even if whatever you did can't be undone, you can do other things and change it, or just other things period, and that goes out into the world. "The sum of your actions evens out."

...I'd heard the word before, but no one ever explained it to me like that.