"I don't think I would've drank anything you gave me that I didn't make sure wasn't full of... sleeping drugs or something," he said with a snort. "You know I never trusted any of you back then, right?" He still had a hard time trusting them even here, even though he knew better. Don't trust adults. Even as an adult himself... well, the fact that they were unchanged from Mother Base just brought back memories.

He took a sip, stared at nothing again. "Do you make a habit of giving children alcohol?" It was a joke, but he said it so dryly it might not have seemed like one.