'Got jumped'. Okay, given enough guesses, he probably could've figured that out. The answer is so innocuous, he's not sure what to think of it or what he was expecting in the first place. He considers pressing for details, but that seems pointless at best. It happened, and just forcing her to relive it so he can know won't accomplish what he's trying to do here. For a few seconds, he's afraid he's hit a dead end until something occurs to him. It wasn't what caused the injury to her eye that had bugged him so much.

"...two years ago," he repeated. "So, um." He scratched his head. "Why didn't you get it healed? Wasn't there somebody in the City with a power that could've done that?"