"Most of the people in this city didn't do anything--" 

Some new instinct (perhaps the gesture, the smell of magic in the air, all just a touch familiar now in a way it wasn't before he got a lightning bolt to the face yesterday?) makes him sidestep, just so, before he even quite thinks about it. 

"-- to you?" 

He is entirely unharmed by the fire and for a second he looks really surprised by that, though she might not notice if she's still not bothering to pay more than cursory attention to him. On the bright side if so that means he can go for the option where he hits her really quite hard, hard enough that he has met very few humans it would not kill on the inst-- 

hm. 

that... barely did anything. 

that's not great.