He smiled, nuzzling her hair as she settled. There would be plenty of time to think. Later. Now he just wanted to let his mind wander some.

After a little while, he started talking about how'd he'd ended up in the Marines, even though she had the information already. All the pages in a file couldn't convey how much he'd actually liked what he was doing. He rambled on about basic, then about SOI, and being selected for SSBC. Once he started to talk about SSBC, he sounded sane and truly happy with his work for the first time since he'd been rescued.