"Interesting and exciting," Gwen says. It sounds, in fact, like something she would be interested in, were they in their own world, a job that might bridge the gap between her ambitions and her father's career. Whatever she chooses to do going forward in the world of biochemistry, she wants it to be something that helps people. She's somehow been giving a chance to cheat death. It seems the least she can do to make her life count. "You were in the army?"