[Curiosity shouldn't come at someone else's expense. Not to him. Because when people push him, when they press too hard, he frays at the edges. It's too dangerous. If he hurt someone here, then everyone could feel it. And that can't happen.]
[He shakes his head, slightly.]
If they want to tell me. I'll listen.
[Like with Murphy. Before they left on the march proper. He hadn't wanted to push. Hadn't wanted to dig in, because of how on edge the man had seemed.]
[What she does here is different. He shakes his head again, this time in bemusement. Some kind of soft exasperation at his own expense.]
no subject
[He shakes his head, slightly.]
If they want to tell me. I'll listen.
[Like with Murphy. Before they left on the march proper. He hadn't wanted to push. Hadn't wanted to dig in, because of how on edge the man had seemed.]
[What she does here is different. He shakes his head again, this time in bemusement. Some kind of soft exasperation at his own expense.]
I was... I was a pilot. If you can believe that.