It ain't the first time he's been asked that exact question by another soldier. Back then, all those years ago, he offered them up a dead, humorless smile and answered: Hell.
Dude thought he was being facetious.
"No, seriously." Seriously.
Tempting as it is to throw that out there again out of habit, he curbs the impulse. It's a little TMI out of context during your first how do you do with a total friggin stranger. Let it never be said he's an oversharer. )
Nah, not exactly. My dad was a marine, but no. I'm a hunter.
( With enough of a slightly off inflection that it puts out the vibe he doesn't mean deer. Not something he used to just say to randos back home, but when you're talking to people who got yanked through a magic friggin' portal into the Lord of the Rings you stop worrying about whether or not they believe in monsters. )
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It ain't the first time he's been asked that exact question by another soldier. Back then, all those years ago, he offered them up a dead, humorless smile and answered: Hell.
Dude thought he was being facetious.
"No, seriously."
Seriously.
Tempting as it is to throw that out there again out of habit, he curbs the impulse. It's a little TMI out of context during your first how do you do with a total friggin stranger. Let it never be said he's an oversharer. )
Nah, not exactly. My dad was a marine, but no. I'm a hunter.
( With enough of a slightly off inflection that it puts out the vibe he doesn't mean deer. Not something he used to just say to randos back home, but when you're talking to people who got yanked through a magic friggin' portal into the Lord of the Rings you stop worrying about whether or not they believe in monsters. )