[Hot water, plumbing, totally not in Mumble’s ballpark but that’s just alien speak, you know? He understands the gist of it: caring about your family, the people around you. Some things are universal.

He gives Varian a nod.]

Yeah! Like, when I was a chick, I wasn’t doing too well in school so I offered to go to work with my parents. [He laughs a little.] Pa said I wasn’t going anywhere without an education, though. ...And I guess I was a little too small to go fishing.