He's misstepped somewhere. That's all he ever does anymore, which is why he doesn't leave his home. "I don't know you, you are correct in that assertion, but I don't think anyone deserves that kind of treatment," he says, because he really does believe that.

Once, his ego night not have tolerated the implication that he wasn't up to the task, but that was a different time, a different Gale, and he looks a little chastened now. "If that's your wish, but there are spells to make people more difficult to find, and I thought that might be of use to you."