Well, I am. [Gene manages a small smile, sort of pleased - if not necessarily surprised - that Snafu's going to be taking him up on it. It's still unsettling to hear him talk so casually about his own death, even if Gene's heard him talk about it more broadly plenty of times before. Ain't nobody going home he'd said, and sometimes, Gene wonders if that means him, too.

Physically, anyway. He already knows the kid he had been died on Peleliu.

He distracts himself again by giving his surroundings another look around.]

Didn't realize the Admiral could make stuff like this. I'm not sure I would've called it a room, back on Pavuvu.

[More like shack. Hut. Definitely not a house.]