That was, at least in part, because... Well, Brianna had been right, maybe. Atton did pretend to be a whole lot more normal around here than he was honestly entirely sure he was, anymore.

Hence also the not mentioning the explosion part, among other things he wasn't - or hadn't, in the past - mentioning to Sparkle.

"Could've been worse," he decided. "Look, Skywalker's the only one I know who could've covered that class with something useful, so..."

He took a bite of his pizza.