"That's a lot of time to sink into something if you don't love it. Must be nice."

The tinge of bitterness in his voice is very light: the whole reason he was here was to not get into that thought spiral again. Thinking that the Investigation was going to be the high point of his life, that his adulthood was going to be a lifetime of pining for a time where what he did was important. He told himself that it was a platform to build the rest of his life on, not a roadblock.

But it was easy to slip back sometimes.