"It does, doesn't it? I don't know what rhinestones are, but I hope they're bright and colorful, and that Tup could paint designs all over it. You should see his art, General, he's going to school for it and everything." He sounds almost comically proud.

"Maybe we could even do it someday," he adds, a little more quietly and with a hint of wistfulness to it. "Have you ever been to the Grand canyon? We watched a documentary on it a while ago and it looks amazing. It just... it just turned out that way. No one blew it up or anything." He sounds a little awed.