[ Yuri observes this small demonstration curiously for a beat, then returns his focus to the fish. As he'd said, he clearly knows well enough how to filet a fish — but he seems more intimately familiar with handling knives. ]

Where I come from, I fancy that'd pass for dark magic. Just another variety some have more aptitude in than others.

[ Yuri can recall missions in which there was hardship such as his associate describes. However, he's kept to himself a little too well, and he fancies those around him could easily take him for a new face.

He's so much more involved, back in Abyss, out of necessity. ]

After that little incident with the station turning against us, I've begun stocking emergency supplies. Water, especially. A man can go much longer without food than water, though I've been gathering non-perishables. Imagine if such a thing happened again, and for longer...

[ A pause, as he examines his work, before he thinks to add— ]

Supplies for everyone, of course.