No worries, it ain't like I can judge about shitty world states. [ He shrugs, which looks a little funny when he's half-lying down still, but. It's not like looking cool matters much in this context where she seems to be pretty thrilled about literally anything he says.

Holy shit, Jade and the sunshine elf would get on like magic.

While he isn't judging the whole world-state thing, he does kinda feel bad for her. Hoping for home to be a better place is...something Dave can sympathize with to extreme degrees. ]

And I also can't judge about rambling. You basically never have to apologize to me for that, as long as you're sayin' something interesting I'll listen and even if not, feel free to, IDK, throw shit at me or roll your eyes. Admittedly sometimes I tune out hella long explanations in Seer-speak, but I haven't heard many of those here, so everyone's got my undivided attention so far. Mostly.

And hey, if you ever want Strider Story Time, let me know and I'll try to tell you some good ones. Or we can try to make a deck of cards and I will happily beat you at them, that should help with homesick, right? Oooh, add "playing cards" to our mission list.

[ hell yeah they've got this job on lockdown

save them ]