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[evocation]

[Kyna shakes her head a little at Lance.]

Now you sound like my brother.

[And as for Wash, well... To be fair, it doesn't sound like he has much of a choice where he's from, anyway.]

[lifetothefullest]

Well, your brother's right, then.

[He offers the response with a small grin of amusement, although he looks at Washington more seriously.]

I have a friend who was in the military for a long time, and he wasn't sure what he was going to do afterward himself. It's pretty common for soldiers to have that problem.

[So it's nothing strange, or anything Lance is going to judge him for.]

[hardwearing]

[ Wash's expression shifts to something almost confused. ]

Afterward?

[evocation]

[Whoops.]

Um... It doesn't sound like retiring or leaving the military is a thing where Wash is from.

[lifetothefullest]

Ah.

[Great, another one of those dimensions.]

Well, there's an 'afterward' here, in this place. Options for professions are a little more limited, but it sounds like any choices are more than you might've had otherwise.

[hardwearing]

You mean in Hadriel?

I guess I did have a lot of down time, before the Null attacked....

[evocation]

[Kyna nudges Wash gently.]

You should try something new. Maybe it'll be fun.

[lifetothefullest]

[Lance nods, both in affirmation to the question and in agreement with Kyna.]

There are so many people here with different skills that there are a lot of opportunities to learn different fields or trades, especially since many have said they're willing to teach. Trial and error's always an option too.

[hardwearing]

[ Huh. He's willing to try something else, but doesn't know what he'd be good at. Even in the military he'd never specialized, never settled on anything. ]

...I wouldn't really know where to start.

[evocation]

[She can't really teach him magic right now, so that's out.]

Um... What do you like to do?

[lifetothefullest]

[It's a good question, and Lance just lets Kyna take over for the moment, especially since he had a similar conversation with her just recently.]

[hardwearing]

[ It's an excellent question, but one he doesn't have an answer to these days. He hasn't even had hobbies for like. A decade. So an awkward silence falls, Wash actually starting to look a little distressed before he redirects his gaze to his lap. He honestly can't come up with anything that isn't related to being a soldier. ]

[evocation]

[Kyna leans into Wash again, frowning slightly.]

Hey, you don't have to answer now. You can just... think about it.

[lifetothefullest]

There's definitely no rush. And you don't have to answer at all, really; you can just try different things and see what you enjoy.

[hardwearing]

The only thing I can think of is that I like teaching people, but everything I teach is combat related. It'd be useful here, but not exactly something different.

[evocation]

Yeah, but you know a lot of stuff, right? You said you were learning a little bit of everything. Maybe you could teach people something else.

[lifetothefullest]

[He can't offer much more on the subject at the moment since he doesn't know all that much about Washington, so he'll just leave this to the two of them to discuss further for now.]

[hardwearing]

Everything the marines were offering, sure.

[evocation]

[She shrugs, then shoots a look at Lance. Help?]

[lifetothefullest]

Is there anything that you've seen or heard of other people doing, and wished you could do yourself?

[hardwearing]

[ These questions are unreasonably difficult for him to answer despite not actually being hard questions. Wash considers it. ]

Yes...

[ Especially since being here, but most of those things involve magic and he doubts he'd be able to learn. ]

[evocation]

[Kyna shoots a grateful look at Lance and then nudges Wash.]

Like what?

[lifetothefullest]

[Lance offers her a small smile in return and then turns his attention toward Washington as well, waiting for the answer.]

[hardwearing]

[ These two are ganging up on him. ]

I think... the most significant was when I found out people could heal. But that's probably not something they could teach me.

[evocation]

It might be. I mean, it depends on the magic, but where I'm from, you could totally learn healing spells.