"Still, you're an odd choice. You'd think they'd rather have someone who specialized in international relations rather than dead civilizations. While I'm sure it's lovely knowing all those languages, if that's all they wanted, they could have just gotten a translator. It isn't as though the military wouldn't have plenty of them."

He may be ever so slightly mocking you, Daniel. Don't mind him, he can't help but look down his nose at practically everyone.

"And you must get involved in quite the interesting politics if you keep getting caught in firefights."