Nova gave the reporter a stare, his eyes narrowed.
"I swear to God if you people start making Starship Troopers jokes around me, I'm gonna go live on the moon."
He narrowed his eyes even more.
"I can do that now."
He rubbed the back of his neck under his helmet.
"Nobody should be making jokes at all, though. Not funny." A pause. "I know it's probably surprising to some people to hear about my part in that, given how much of an idiot and a glory hound I used to be. There was a point in my life where I had this stupid idea in my head that I was like some kinda rookie working my way up, you know? But now? To extend that baseball metaphor a bit, sometimes I feel like I'd give anything to go back to the bush leagues and take that bus right back to Kokomo."
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"I swear to God if you people start making Starship Troopers jokes around me, I'm gonna go live on the moon."
He narrowed his eyes even more.
"I can do that now."
He rubbed the back of his neck under his helmet.
"Nobody should be making jokes at all, though. Not funny." A pause. "I know it's probably surprising to some people to hear about my part in that, given how much of an idiot and a glory hound I used to be. There was a point in my life where I had this stupid idea in my head that I was like some kinda rookie working my way up, you know? But now? To extend that baseball metaphor a bit, sometimes I feel like I'd give anything to go back to the bush leagues and take that bus right back to Kokomo."