"A couple months ago," he says casually, shrugging. "Four times, in the abdomen, but with nothing like one of these. And I'm supposing that gives me a good reason to get comfortable with this, then."

He tests the feel of it in both hands, before deciding on the right; it feels less awkward there. "Strange. You shoot it the same way, for all of them? Point and squeeze?" He got the crash course from the irritable man in the ugly blue jumpsuit, quite a while ago.