Your life is pretty exciting, huh?

[ Varian's seems mundane by comparison. He's dreamed of adventure as much as any other child, but in the end he was satisfied with how things were, and certainly it was preferable to the current state of affairs. ]

I have a friend too, but I don't know if I'd say he's bonded. And he's just a raccoon. And I just couldn't get him to stop coming in my lab.

[ They're friends though, so there's that. ]