[Spend enough time not as a civilian and you make a better one. He can provide details. Numbers even. Provided you push past he PTSD and other traumas of fighting men and women.]

I’ll admit I don’t think I know what ‘guard’ you are talking about, but I get it. Sort of. Gro-pro, special ops, marine? Anything in that classification I can use to fit you into my neat little brain boxes? Perhaps even a rank or name to address you by? I’m David, by the way.

[He says so much while saying so little. Buys him more time to consider her. To study how she moves, how she holds herself, if it hints at any military training he might recognize.]