[Kratos does thank himself. He's actually having to stretch himself, these days, and in a manner of speaking it's satisfying to have the challenge. It also gives him plenty of opportunity to examine the kind of facility this is, a fact he only realised might be worth doing about the time he found an unfamiliar generator converting electrical energy.

[Every now and then, he rewards his guards for putting up with him by submitting to being escorted and sparring with them in the training rooms.

[Today, despite previous plans, is apparently not going to be a day where that happens.]

Yuan. You waited for me to wake up first today, I see.