Oh, bless your heart.

[It pops out without conscious thought; his mother's church-lady code for total disdain.]

That threat didn't work on me coming from someone far out of what used to be your league, who could kill in a way even I couldn't fix.

Every time you force a confrontation, I will win. But you'll be stubborn about it.

[He will; this is a thing Dillon knows about him. It would be sad, if it was someone less determinedly horrible.]