See, that reaction made it worth it! ... He'd been too baffled that he'd gotten away with it at all, when it'd happened.

"...After which he slammed me against the wall and I think I bruised a couple of my ribs, but whatever, that's nothing."

The Atton hanging around an energy cage a year ago would have been appalled about that statement, but the Atton of now had kind of adjusted his scale of significant injuries.