[That doesn't do much to assure him either, but that's a whole other issue revolving around believing in higher powers or not. None of that is lost on him and he kind of quietly agrees with that sentiment. Believing in something kept him from drowning completely at home...even if it wasn't quite the right something at first.]

You mean like the government. Maybe. Politics aren't really hard to understand. [They're just boring.] I think I'd rather be doing something instead of just talking about doing something for whoever the ruler is, but maybe not a knight. Something else.