"We have ghost stories. My human friends from school tried to hunt them down a couple times, but we didn't have any success finding the real thing. But maybe the stories exist for a reason. I kind of like the idea of some things being mysterious and hard to explain..." He trails off, giving it some thought, then laughs. "Maybe ghost hunting was a warmup for the space missions and alien encounters."

And on second thought about those aliens. "So far all the aliens have been nice. Only attacking because they were disturbed, like wildlife on Earth would. So I guess we lucked out with friendly aliens, at least."

He circles back around to the original topic at hand. "It sounds like you've seen some really intense battles before you came here, even if you're more of a... volunteer for safety than a soldier."