"I'm good with staying on bandage duty," he ribs dryly, smiling around the beer at his mouth.

But the question makes him lower it again. "Well, maybe not exactly fifty," he admits, because it's faintly worrying Soldat took that at face value so readily, "But enough for plenty of different tasks. There's so many ways to lash a ship or fix a rope that it pays to know a few different ways, depending on how quickly you wanna be able to untie them, if you do at all."