I do now. [Which again, could almost be teasing, almost like the person he used to be before he hit the beach, before the guy in front of him on the LVT had been shot and fallen on him, getting his blood all over Gene as he bled out and someone hustled Sledge up and over the side.

(He likes Kieren. He's not sure how he feels about him being Snafu's warden, but he likes him. Even if it's strange, to be looking at someone who still almost looks like a corpse, and Gene's sort of aware that maybe it's only manageable because he looks nothing like the decaying bodies on Peleliu.)

Gene's quiet for a moment, worrying vaguely over what to say next, looking back at his sleeping friend.]

Thanks. I know he's- [Weird, horrible, gross, kind of broken and dissociated and Kieren has to know about what Snaf's done if Gene knows half of what he does about Jimmy thanks to the file.] Asiatic, we'd call it. Weird. But I don't really want to think about goin' through whatever's next without him.

[So the fact that he has a warden who cares enough to be here is hopefully a good thing. Maybe he won't have to figure out how to get through the rest of the war without Ack Ack, Hillbilly and Snaf.]