"I would be more than happy to meet him, and to hear you play."
Hannibal thinks back to his own experience with bullies, rubbing his thumb over the scar on his cheek. A souvenir from his time at boarding school. "Being bullied has nothing to do with how you react and everything to do with the actions taken against you. You are bullied if you feel violated, or abused, or put upon in some way."