"Pitiful" was a good word for it. Not one Grif was ever happy with in a sentence anywhere close to his name, but this wasn't the first or the last time it would land there. A certain degree of patheticness was inherent to the Grif experience, and that was what had him the most upset at the moment. They caught him, there was nothing he could do about it, and it was easy.

Just one more embarrassment for the pile.

"Because you want to make me feel like an asshole?" he replied to Nick, glaring. He was redfaced from hanging upside down, out of breath, and starting to bruise a bit. But still defiant.