[ Reno isn't exactly an optimist, not in the glass-half-full, look-at-the-bright-side way, but he does think there's a time and a place for raging against the machine. he hasn't met all that many people yet, but among the ones Reno has encountered, nobody seems stupid—if there were a way to easily get out of this situation, surely someone would have found one in three months.

thus: no point in being an asshole about it unless he's also effecting change, which Reno isn't yet in a position to be doing. ]

I could definitely do something with the needles, it's the yarn that gives me pause. [ is that a joke about being a merc of sorts? maybe yes.

Emerick saying "since I was a younger man" when he's almost definitely Reno's age or younger does make Reno grin, but he doesn't comment—there's a difference between being young and feeling young, the latter mostly being a byproduct of the kind of life you've lived, and it doesn't sound like Emerick's has been easy. ]

Not a bad bunch of hobbies. Sounds like you're the guy to come to when I end up with questions, huh?