"Retirement," he says, then groans a little. "Well, now I just feel old."
In Hawkins he would have been at least eighteen years from retirement, long enough for him to get a pretty decent pension, long enough for him to raise another kid, really, but now he's in a city where the kids think he's already old enough to retire. Even if she had said early.
"Are there a lot of creeps teenage girls need protecting from?" he asks in return. That's not something he'll ever just walk away from, that's for sure, but whatever her answer is might help him get a better sense of what Darrow is like in terms of crime.
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In Hawkins he would have been at least eighteen years from retirement, long enough for him to get a pretty decent pension, long enough for him to raise another kid, really, but now he's in a city where the kids think he's already old enough to retire. Even if she had said early.
"Are there a lot of creeps teenage girls need protecting from?" he asks in return. That's not something he'll ever just walk away from, that's for sure, but whatever her answer is might help him get a better sense of what Darrow is like in terms of crime.