Of course, he could picture it just as easily, something he hadn't been able to picture with Jess since even before his last deployment. She was an accountant, he was not. She seemed to care as much about history as he did about numbers. Which was to say, very little. When they'd married, when they'd been in love, she'd supported his dream, even accepting his wish to enlist to support them and get money for school.

Now, he had no idea what Jess thought he should do. He didn't even know how to ask the question. Except that he could easily talk about it with Carrie.