[Geir doesn't retreat from the pat, but he doesn't quite lean into it either, eyes narrowing slightly.]

I didn't know how I felt about that before you mentioned it, either.

[he isn't upset, exactly, but he definitely felt the urge to dig in his heels and push back against being pushed there, and he's still feeling and expressing that. the fact that he trusts Dirk and that Dirk was the one who did it -- in the context of one of their all-topics-allowed heart to hearts, no less -- means that it's a low stakes situation, though, and he can examine and analyze the feeling. he's thinking about it.]