He doesn't actually mind the laughter - it's not directed at him or meant cruelly - and his brain is still firing a bit off, like circuits that are almost connecting but not quite. He tries to figure out what that history would make someone like Garth'zel to the people he'd grown up, and the only words that come to mind are 'wizard badass' and 'hero' and it shifts everything to a different something he isn't sure how to explain.

"Wow."