He considers that a beat. That seems slightly wrong. Not the part about ripping up vehicles, but about her skills being useless. Like there's something he used to know about that. Fixing vehicles. (Well. Know how to fix the arm, so maybe it's that.)

"Maybe if you got their permission, first," he suggests hesitantly. "Eventually. When we're settled. People would need things fixed when they actually break, and would have to ask someone who knew how. Might pay you for that." There aren't a lot of vehicles around here, that he's seen, but there are other appliances.