"Yeah, Aspen's a little different from where I'm at," he says, though technically he should say it's different from where he was. But it's kind of hard to explain that your current residence is a massive airship that just kind of flies around the country, so... he skips that part.

He would also like to skip this particular line of questioning, but maybe she's drunk enough where he can get away with caginess. "Nothing super exciting. I quit for about a year and a half to do other stuff, so I just got back in. But you said you used to be a mercenary -- what now?"