"Huh. I guess it came in handy after all. That's about the only thing it's ever accomplished for me, minus one really ugly scarf."

Artemis might think it was all of that, but that wasn't the way he saw it at all. He'd learned his lessons a little too late, roughly at knife point, and he was still the kind of person who lived too much in the past. The most he'd accomplished was playing into a prank and not falling for the same one twice.