[ It was in his parents, and he’d done some training, but — ] Grew up with it, and I guess there’s some stuff that becomes a part of you, whether you want it to or not.
[ Not that he hadn’t wanted it to, and it had come useful in the past — would probably come in use right now, too — but it wasn’t his first choice or his passion. He looks at Ian and while it’s not quite a smile, there’s something at the corners of his mouth that’s a little less severe, anyway. Mace wouldn’t know what to do with best friends even if the term came with a handbook, but two people on the same mission — and moreover, with a very similar outlook — is something he understands full well.
Now that he thinks about it, the guy's demeanour does suit teaching. ]
Believe it or not, I’m also an engineer.
[ Makes sense why they’ve been on the same wavelength — both looking at things on a practical, tangible, falsifiable level. The likelihood of all of this is on the strange side, though, and he figures Ian’s thinking along more or less the same lines. Wondering if it’s all on purpose, and the choice to put them together could be a tactic to make them doubt the other, but that’s a line of thought he knows there’s no point in feeding.
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[ It was in his parents, and he’d done some training, but — ] Grew up with it, and I guess there’s some stuff that becomes a part of you, whether you want it to or not.
[ Not that he hadn’t wanted it to, and it had come useful in the past — would probably come in use right now, too — but it wasn’t his first choice or his passion. He looks at Ian and while it’s not quite a smile, there’s something at the corners of his mouth that’s a little less severe, anyway. Mace wouldn’t know what to do with best friends even if the term came with a handbook, but two people on the same mission — and moreover, with a very similar outlook — is something he understands full well.
Now that he thinks about it, the guy's demeanour does suit teaching. ]
Believe it or not, I’m also an engineer.
[ Makes sense why they’ve been on the same wavelength — both looking at things on a practical, tangible, falsifiable level. The likelihood of all of this is on the strange side, though, and he figures Ian’s thinking along more or less the same lines. Wondering if it’s all on purpose, and the choice to put them together could be a tactic to make them doubt the other, but that’s a line of thought he knows there’s no point in feeding.
Instead, he elaborates: ]
Space program.