[Geir responds in weird, elliptical ways to pressure. sometimes he panics. sometimes he disassociates. in this case, he does neither, but he looks back at Dirk levelly.]

I don't know if I'd care about them yet.

[he doesn't. liking some people he's met in the coven is a long way from firmly generalizing that he cares about all life intrinsically, and even if he's slowly pulling in more data to ponder whether he feels that way or not, he's not there.]