[Alchemist? Scholar? Either this kid is very smart for his age, or is just a very small adult. Finnick decides to give up on figuring that out.]

That sounds interesting. What are you studying?

[He gestures to the boat he sits in.]

I think I'm supposed to be a sailor. Which fits, I guess, since my dad was one. [is one?] That was something I could have grown up to be, back home, but my life took a very different turn.