Re: Third class, away from the dining room
"Teasing. The unknown. See if you have a sense of humor." The 'it' could be anything, but it could also be a test to see if they had enough balls to handle keep going or if they'd fold and wash out like old laundry on the tide. "If you can take the hazing and laugh about it."
His grin dropped a little as she mentioned what he had to fight for. "Not so much in the beginning," he admitted. Even the smallest things could have set him off, brought his fists out until the anger abated long enough for him to feel something else. He'd been a handful as a teenager, but now he was a little less prone to getting into fights. A little. And now they were less about every little insult and more about the things that mattered. "But now it's about saving people from the monsters they can't fight against."
The first Kaiju attacks had been so devastating because they didn't have anything that could take them down that easily. And then it hadn't been a choice when the program opened up -- he had to go. Had to fight for the world he called home.
The corners of his mouth came up again as she mentioned about her ability to fight. "When we get somewhere safer, I'll show you a couple things. Like how to use that wand of yours." Not for magic, but in a fight that little pointy stick could do some damage if she knew how to use it. "Even if you only know enough so you can get away from someone, you should know." Monsters walked in all types of skins, from the scaly to the furred, from the frozen to the thick-hided and if nothing else, he wanted to make sure that should she find herself alone, she knew something.
He gave her hand a squeeze as the passage opened up for an elevator and another hallway to go down the opposite side of the ship. "What do you think? Elevator? Or another round?" His thumb skipped over her knuckles. "Did you give him what he wanted?"