"I hunt monsters, so same boat." And he works constructions and strips and does door-to-door recruiting and drives boats and carries packages for UHaul and basically everything else, but those are less relevant here. The one thing he hasn't done? Be a journalist.

He quickly positions himself so she has more room to fire at the oncoming aliens. "No kidding. I don't know how much longer this civilian's going to last, he's looking pretty bad."

Which gives them some not-particularly-good options: keep moving, or stand their ground here while Dan tries to assess the injury situation. Or leave the guy, but Dan would never agree to that.

*On account of the illiteracy.