Essek actively flinches at her snapping at them, he definitely feels he deserves that. It was a completely fair reaction, though it still hurts. Like it has whenever someone he's come to even slightly care for lashes back at him for the wrongs he's committed against them. Perhaps-...

No, he instead focuses on the barely aware thought to take form, reversing his gravitational pull and starts to comfortably float half a foot from the seat he's on, moving to cross his legs. This was not at all part of his former abilities.

"Either of us can further demonstrate if needed, but I also have this," he pushes up his sleeve, his SCA now visible.

"And.. yes, if you do not wish to call his home anymore, then.. no matter what this is a safe please for you. That-- that with us you are safe."