I guess in adjacent territory, he's also reveling in the unhappy realization that he doesn't trust Sif's judgment-- like, in a very serious, large, concrete, evidence-based problematic way, and that he won't always see eye-to-eye with his friends on really important things.

Can I make you talk about this more? How deep/far this goes, how much it's troubling him, how he plans to deal with it, if it shakes up his feelings towards the others at all, etc. I will also come up with real questions soon, I promise.