That look on Eric's face doesn't go unnoticed. Val sighs. War really doesn't solve things, yet it is always what happens.
"It is what it is. I knew what I..."
He trails off for a second. He certainly thought he knew what he was signing up for when he came out of retirement, but much of what has happened recently was very much not on the cards at the time.
So he shakes his head and instead says, "It certainly isn't what I wish I was still doing with my life. I should have stayed retired."
He doesn't look older than his mid-twenties. It's also not really that simple, not coming back to the Polity would have lost him what time with Kazu he did have, but still. War is tiring.
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That look on Eric's face doesn't go unnoticed. Val sighs. War really doesn't solve things, yet it is always what happens.
"It is what it is. I knew what I..."
He trails off for a second. He certainly thought he knew what he was signing up for when he came out of retirement, but much of what has happened recently was very much not on the cards at the time.
So he shakes his head and instead says, "It certainly isn't what I wish I was still doing with my life. I should have stayed retired."
He doesn't look older than his mid-twenties. It's also not really that simple, not coming back to the Polity would have lost him what time with Kazu he did have, but still. War is tiring.