'He's just stubborn. And likes things his own way.' He waves it off because really, he can't blame him for it and is the same way himself so he's not one to be throwing stones in the glasshouse.

'Yeah, there's a place in his universe, on a desert world. The water is enchanted to give life for five hundred years. Damn useful thing but it only works once, you can't keep taking more.'

He would, if he could.

'You've fought in them then?'