"It's a thing. I mean, I don't know how much of a thing it is here, but back home, it was definitely a thing. Eating disorders and all. You know. I saw it a lot at the gym. There were folks, often women, who'd spend their entire day at the gym, barely eat anything, come back and do it again the next day. I tried intervening a couple of times, but it always backfired, so I eventually stopped."

Major puts his hands on his waist while he listens to Clary talk to the puppy, making a bit of a face - though he doesn't really mean it. He isn't insulted by anything she's saying. If anything, she's .. right on the nose.

"Ravi is absolutely a chicken, and I am a pushover only with certain things. But I'd never think to deny someone the joys of being around a puppy. We need to take all the good we can get here, right?"