That gets a quirk of an eyebrow, Raleigh taking another moment to size Alex up.

"Okay, you don't look old enough to call me kid, served twenty years or not. But you're not wrong... even ignoring the final mission, being the only ones to ever go into the Breach? Piloting's not something anybody who hasn't done it can understand and there's only a handful of us left."

He tilts his head at Alex curiously. "You're not the first to say that, either, but most people around here seem to think drifting sounds like their worst nightmare. Somebody in their head like that."