Anthony looked over at Michael briefly before looking away again as he talked. Sure, the things she said was the main reason the thoughts were resurfacing again, but it wasn't as if he'd pushed them down very well to begin with if all it had taken was one conversation with an unpleasant person to have him focusing on it all again.
Even still, he nodded, more as a show for Michael than out of genuinely believing the words he was saying. "I think it helped that I apparently make for an easy target." He didn't feel any certain away about that; he was just stating it as a fact. He'd long ago realised that his tendency to shy away from confrontation if he could wasn't very convenient when it came to confrontational people.