Kubo chuckled a little bit before realizing Wash was serious.

"Why?" he asked. "What's out there that would?"

He didn't ask it with fear - more with a need for clarification. Maybe Wash knew more about this world that he did.

"I mean, I know there are a lot of things that could hurt anyone, but - is this place anything like where you're from?"

He glanced at the game's instructions again before looking over the board and the myriad of pieces. "I don't even know what either of those other games are," he said, lifting a piece with, for some reason, a ram's head. "It looks a little like shogi. Do you want to be -" he glanced at the colors - "green or red?"

It was polite to ask, but he hoped Wash would take green.