[His eyes widen as Daylight speaks, and as he sips at the drink - which, yeah, really good, actually. As far as he can tell, anyway, for he's never been any sort of connoisseur of red wines.]

So not a hobby, she was an actual codebreaker. I would've loved to meet her. That kind of skill takes some real genius. Always sounded so cool to hear stories about that stuff.

[Well, and to do a little of it, for he's trained in the use and recognition of several standard encryption methods in his world and will just decline to mention that fact. But he didn't invent them, and he sure wouldn't really know where to start in breaking one he'd never seen before, and building entire machines to do it? That's some professional work.]