[Oran gives him a moment or two to compose his thoughts as he spots his next prey: a pair of crabs unceremoniously making a beast with two carapaces. He scoops them and chucks them into the bucket once Abel seems settled again, though he notes the... the disappointment? Baggage, certainly, that he finds in his voice.]
Maybe it's a good thing you're here. It sounds like you were going into a lot of danger and... and everything I've ever heard about being in the military sounds like you get treated like a pawn.
[He settles his hands on his hips, grinning and lashing his tail a couple of times.]
No offense. You don't look like one to me, anyways.
If you could go back to the same moment... would you?
[Maybe a bit of a bomb of a question to drop so early into knowing someone, but Oran has heard the gamut of responses by now, and he's genuinely curious.]
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Maybe it's a good thing you're here. It sounds like you were going into a lot of danger and... and everything I've ever heard about being in the military sounds like you get treated like a pawn.
[He settles his hands on his hips, grinning and lashing his tail a couple of times.]
No offense. You don't look like one to me, anyways.
If you could go back to the same moment... would you?
[Maybe a bit of a bomb of a question to drop so early into knowing someone, but Oran has heard the gamut of responses by now, and he's genuinely curious.]