"Why not? You were on a ship, know how to fight, and obviously did something illegal enough that you don't want to talk about it. Pirate makes sense."

Toss, miss, go to pick it up. Strange is just continuing to practice as he talks. His form is loosening up a bit as he talks—Strange isn't hyperfocused on all the details, so he's not thinking himself into a circle now.

"Unless you'll actually tell me what you did for a living, that's what I'm going to have to go with," he says, knowing full well that Billie most likely won't tell him what she did for a living. She can be annoying like that.