[ It's strange to realize. He'd spent so long preoccupied with his dreams that he hadn't thought about who or what he might be otherwise. ]

In some gentler world... It's hard to say, but gardening wasn't so bad, even if it was only a cover. Maybe I'd have had a bakery or something, had I the means.

[ For that matter, he hadn't thought about what comes after his goal, had he? ]

Maybe I'd have caught the interest of a certain handsome farmer in such a life.