Her comment earned a genuinely happy laugh, just from the sheer amusement. The fighting, after all, didn't bother him. He enjoyed fighting, a little more than he probably should given that the goal of martial arts was to need never use those skills. It was the loss of friends that got to him.

"On Earth, there's a kind of plant called kudzu. Viney plant. Grows about a foot in day, and it is pretty much a weed considering it ended up someplace it shouldn't. So if we sat around for too long somewhere close to that..."