"One beer, coming up." The cooler's right next to him so, hey, Wash gets continued hair ruffling and the thunk of a cool longneck right next to one of his hands whenever he feels up to cracking it open. No pressure.

That question twinges in his gut more than a little because, man. How often had he tried that particular thing?

"Good news and bad news on that front. Good news: Totally possible. Bad news: chemically inducing apathy has led to making people complete sociopaths and or depressed enough to kill themselves. You don't really need to deal with either of those, man." Especially considering how they both feel about altering the brain for whatever reason. "It's- the heart wants what the heart wants and the heart doesn't know a damn thing about what's good for it which leads us to poor life choices."