[She's got him laughing again, more playful than he has any right to be when speaking of the cruelty he unleashes upon his poor knights. He's going to give Wave one of the... less insidious examples.]

Oh, here's a fun one: just the other day, we were carrying out reconnaissance in the snowy Vindagnyr mountains. The chill wind blows all year round at the mountain's peak, but under conditions like those, you'll quickly freeze to death if you fail to keep warm.

During a supply break, I sent Noelle, a recruit who is working oh so hard to become a fully fledged knight, back into town to fetch some coffee. [Sending a poor girl several miles down a snowy mountain to get coffee isn't the punchline. He's getting there.] But with a proviso: if she could reach the peak without the coffee going cold, I'd sign off on her training and allow her to become a true and proper knight.

[And Wave can guess how that turned out. Poor, poor Noelle. She's nowhere near close to being ready to be a knight and it seems everyone but her is aware of that fact, but unlike everyone else, Kaeya's a little too content to tease her half to death.]