Rush shrugs fluidly in a motion he hopes conveys nothing but a complete lack of concern, nothing but composed civility.

"Retribution. Recrimination. However you choose to define it." A painfully human motivation, but he has never been beyond that, a fact of which he is wholly aware. His unperturbed air sharpens, his tone laced with a fierce, defiant bite. "You hurt someone who happens to be rather important to me. Surely you anticipated repercussions."