Chase managed a weak chuckle and sipped his drink. "<i>Our country," </i>he barely suppressed a curse, it came out as a grunt. "The VA doctors couldn't do a thing for me. I spent three years in a chair and wasted most of it waiting for them to even find me a peg leg. he city was young in those days and they needed people with military experience and offered to give me proper legs."<br/><br/>Hh took another sip of his drink. "Just finished fifteen years as head of the defense forces, actually, that plus 20 in the U.S. Marines and I'm ready to retire in style. I'd say I'm enjoying things."<br/><br/>He leaned in again, putting his elbows on his thighs. "As for you, I did call your eyes unusual, they're just not a color reserved for anything. Except perhaps, spectacular, mysterious girls like yourself."