València remembered her own brush with the Stellar Seven. She hadn't backed down when the Four confronted her at Carmen's orders. Instead, she'd shoved back, and called València’s bluff. Having now seen the results of what should have been an even more lopsided fight in favor of the Meteors, she was secretly glad to have lost her nerve that day. Pureza with her three Equestrians and an alien monkey-biped, plus two Stellar initiates, utterly destroying fourteen Meteors? For València to have challenged them with her smaller squad of Hatcheteers would have indeed been a complete massacre, as Pureza had claimed.