"That's about right. I fought on the ground for a long while before we used the mecha. Ronnie was with me for part of the way, and she saved my life, but it was rough."

All that death, all the blood that had coated him when he'd finally emerged from it all. He was still relatively inexperienced with such bloody warfare, that wouldn't be forgotten easily.

"But don't you have things to do? I think I'll be all right, I just need to wait. There's no life-threatening problem left here."