It was mostly because he didn't have to play instructor. Snake wasn't really a teaching man. He wasn't particularly good at it. He wasn't really into it, but he guessed it was only slightly better than freezing his ass off in Alaska. (But maybe he missed the dog sled racing a little. Mush.)

He didn't take his eyes off of her when she began to move, mostly because he didn't know where she was going to. She still looked young and he was going to guess he had something of a womanising reputation after the stupid ordeal with Eli went public. The wrong pair of eyes could catch a glance of him and make the wrong idea. It'd be a disaster, to put it lightly.

"Nostalgic, huh?" he asked. "Yeah. I guess it could be." Had he ever been in hot springs before? He had a hard time believing he hadn't, but he couldn't say he had a lot of memories that he wanted to hold onto.