For once, Dean is not being flippant. While he may be from Kansas, he's no farm boy, so there weren't horses around. But he is a fan of old Westerns. He's seen everything Clint Eastwood ever did and he can recite a good portion of those films from memory. Horse-riding seems like an awesome thing to learn.
His approving reverie is broken by her question; it catches him enough off-guard that he doesn't have time to come up with a suitable amount of cover.
"I've been better," he admits. "I lost a lot back there, in Bete Noire. Being here--" he means this building, this organization-- "that'll help a lot. I do better when I've got work to do. Never was much of one for laying around and dwelling on stuff. But I'll be fine. And you don't have to worry about me on the job."
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For once, Dean is not being flippant. While he may be from Kansas, he's no farm boy, so there weren't horses around. But he is a fan of old Westerns. He's seen everything Clint Eastwood ever did and he can recite a good portion of those films from memory. Horse-riding seems like an awesome thing to learn.
His approving reverie is broken by her question; it catches him enough off-guard that he doesn't have time to come up with a suitable amount of cover.
"I've been better," he admits. "I lost a lot back there, in Bete Noire. Being here--" he means this building, this organization-- "that'll help a lot. I do better when I've got work to do. Never was much of one for laying around and dwelling on stuff. But I'll be fine. And you don't have to worry about me on the job."