[o] [SE] never think before I jump

He heard the doubt in her voice and his shoulders tensed. He sure as hail wasn't gonna stick around where he wasn't wanted! But Boreal had raced off with the Mata Mata and she obviously wasn't going to come back to him anytime soon. Shit was going to get real awkward in a couple of seconds--

But maybe Noe realized it, too, or maybe she was just desperate enough to take whoever happened by. Either way Tal found himself relaxing again and letting out a quiet huff of a breath that might have been either a sigh or a snort at his own foolishness. "Wouldn'tve offered if I'd minded," he pointed out wryly, leaning over the blueprints again and double checking her notes on the basic structures so he wouldn't fuck things up. "Let's get t'work."

This involved rolling up his sleeves and tying back his hair before he headed over to the wood pile and starting to pull out sections that were, he was relieved to see, already pre-cut. That would make the job a lot easier! "So what all's goin' in here? What kind o' trainin' do Dragoons do, anyways?" Probably a better question for Koa, but since his wingman wasn't here maybe the engineer could shed some light on their regimens.