"Not yet." He shakes his head, looking up again. "I mean, it will be. I said I'd sign the lease tomorrow or the day after." And no thought of not doing so. Even if Neil had pushed him away, laughed in his face, rejected the whole idea--which he hadn't really believed was possible--he thinks he still would have signed.

One way or another, he's done with full-time soldiering now.

He glances over at Neil again. "I coulda waited, showed you when I actually had the keys, but... I didn't want to."