That a note of concern I hear? [Sounds like someone can give out the teasing as well as he can take it, after all.] As far as this job goes, my boredom only means good things for the rest of the people on the ship. I'll gladly take that bullet for everyone.

[So self-sacrificing! Not that he's affording himself the boredom, or the complacency that comes with it. There's more to all this than meets the eye, he suspects– but that's not a talk he'll have out in public.]

At least I know who to go to for scraped knees and elbows.