Just you wait until Marco expertly argues that if he cooked he's exempt from dish dusty, Galliard. The addition of 'field' has Marco tilting his head a little - even where he's from, the earliest you could sign up was twelve - but he moves past it.

"We had KP duty as part of our training. Though, of course, we didn't cook usually, but I was on good terms with the officers who handled that." Which meant he was recruited to help out, since he could be trusted not to poison the other kids.

He leaves the kitchen to come look at the tv, though, ever the responsible soldier, he picks up the (frankly large) stack of manuals that was left on the kitchen table.

"Well, it's not a window..." He flips through the covers, setting each one he disregards it to be down on the stand below it. "... a 'teevee'?"