“Maybe you’ll just have to do it and find out,” Zach shot back with a cocky smirk, even if Talia couldn’t see it behind the mask. Was he testing Talia a little bit, probably, but could anyone really blame him? Plus, it wasn’t often that either one of them got the chance to just kind of relax – or at least he knew he didn’t get that chance very often. Which was entirely self-inflicted, but that was a minor detail.
Zach shrugged slightly. “I’m just confident,” or stupid, which he was thinking it might be the latter. “And I’m willing to take my chances on the whole ‘odds’ think.” Nobody could ever accuse him of lacking confidence, especially not when it came to women. This felt like every other conversation he and Talia had had before, which he wondered if that meant something or if they were just prone to talking in circles with each other. “Think I’m a lucky man? Nah, I know I’m a lucky man,” he paused for a moment. “I survived a zombie bite you know.” Which yeah, that did make him feel a little more cocky, even if he still carried guilt around over that as well.
He couldn’t necessarily argue with Talia here, she was the expert after all and he was just a medic. “You’re probably right,” Zach remarked honestly. “That is kind of an intriguing thing, like how was that thing even standing up if its spinal column was busted to all hell like it was.” He had to admit that did make him curious, even if he wasn’t as prone to wanting to dig around and figure things out about zombies, helping Talia with this did kind of cement the thought that he had done the right thing with Gordy. Because he’d been a zombie long enough that his insides probably looked like this as well, most likely.
Zach couldn’t help the way his eyebrows rose as Talia admitted she’d never handled trauma medicine before joining the infirmary staff. “Really? You didn’t have to do a rotation there in med school or something?” That was actually fairly impressive, because she was one of the best doctors he’d had the pleasure of working with, which was saying a lot ‘cause he’d dealt with his fair share – and she was working in worse conditions than most of them.