"See, I've grown up plenty since then." Maybe, probably, if they were having this conversation back when he first came onto the ship, he would have been a bit more offended about it. Now, well, he saw the humor in it.

He paused, crouched down to scratch Mantis behind the ears. "Not like I knew here to know what she would or wouldn't have, but there's not much we could do about it anyway. For the longest time, it's all I knew. Bit hard to break from all that."

He raised an eyebrow, peering over at the shed. Nice. He seemed quite ready to head over. "Let's check it out." There could always be something cool in there. Weapons? Things that weren't weapons but could be used as weapons? A lawnmower?