Strange nods. He was the one who Nightshade was yanking around, who spent a good amount of time staring at her like a devoted idiot, who generally failed at murder, and also the one who went down with pretty much one punch. Thanks for that, Lambert.

"It wasn't exactly my finest hour," Strange admits, with a frown. "But my magic's only grown since then."

Which is probably not the thing you want to be telling your technical captor but look, being brainwashed and enthralled made Strange do some really dumb decisions. Even if he is kind of captured by the Summer Court at the moment, he's still got his pride.