[being attentive is, in a lot of senses, all Geir feels he has. without the ability to watch people closely, to recognize patterns in their behavior and breaks in what they say, he wouldn't understand any social rules at all... and more to the point, Loki would have fooled him a lot more often than he did. You're too easy to lie to, the trickster god had told him contemptuously.

it's true that Geir is naive, and takes a lot at face value when perhaps he shouldn't. but he watches people. he's watching Julius now.]

Are you a different kind of person without it?

[his head is tilted, trying to quantify what Julius is saying.]