[ Wash still has his misgivings about Ratchet, just instinctively, but he knows how to play nice with people when he has to, and well -- he's a good actor. If Ratchet's waiting for some sign of it, he'll get none, Wash is conversational and maybe not exactly warm but that's just his default rather than anything pointed at Ratchet specifically. ]

Local dialect's not too far off, I think. I knew a couple Russian words here and there. And I'm pretty sure French is spoken -- somewhere, around here. [ Who knows, man. ] How're things in the med tent?