"He's too scared to talk! He's afraid he's gonna get axe murdered." Specifically with the axe-murdering, here. He presses his hands together to divert some of his worried energy and tries to keep a level head here. For a guy who allegedly does a lot of axe murdering, he sure does care about what people think of him.

"L-listen, Verity. We should just forget any of this came up! You'll go on home today and in a few days I'll get a hold of you two. We'll all hang out and learn magic, and I'll make a pumpkin pie for Steve, just like he wanted. It'll be good, safe fun, and none of us will secretly be evil in our spare time!" There's no impending 'or else' tacked onto the end of that. For someone who claims to be a bad guy Harrow's pretty, well. Bad.