"Probably not here. If you'd run and gotten caught, who knows what would've happened?" Callen mused, tapping his chin thoughtfully. "I hate what went on during the war. People had so much taken from them, and there are still some who haven't gotten it back, and some who won't ever."
He'd taken a year's sabbatical, nominally to do research for a thesis-type he was working on but mostly to avoid having to actively work for the MLE. It just hadn't been something that Callen could bring himself to participate in.
The lighter subject was quite welcome. "Verity. Probably...third year? I just did it because I felt like it. She's a rather cheerful girl, our Tee. We never really talked about it again after that. Wasn't a huge deal."