( Clint files away everything Steve’s telling him as best he can, to deal with later. Details, facts, and rumors about this place are useful, to be sure, but at the moment he can’t really focus on them. )
A giant turtle.
( He says that flatly, the one thing he picks out—though he heard it all, really he did. )
Any chance the thing itself is more friendly than the people on it?
( That’s a joke, mostly. He doesn’t actually want to try and talk to the giant turtle. But he walks over and braces his palms against the table Steve’s sitting at, thinking. Usually he’s bouncing ideas like this off Natasha, and she works so differently from him that they can see every angle of something between the two of them. Even from these brief glimpses, he knows strategizing with Steve is far from the same thing. )
And I never said I wanted to get out at the expense of others. ( That’s defensive; the last thing he wants is Captain America reminding him what kind of person he is. ) What you’re saying and what I’m saying aren’t mutually exclusive.
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A giant turtle.
( He says that flatly, the one thing he picks out—though he heard it all, really he did. )
Any chance the thing itself is more friendly than the people on it?
( That’s a joke, mostly. He doesn’t actually want to try and talk to the giant turtle. But he walks over and braces his palms against the table Steve’s sitting at, thinking. Usually he’s bouncing ideas like this off Natasha, and she works so differently from him that they can see every angle of something between the two of them. Even from these brief glimpses, he knows strategizing with Steve is far from the same thing. )
And I never said I wanted to get out at the expense of others. ( That’s defensive; the last thing he wants is Captain America reminding him what kind of person he is. ) What you’re saying and what I’m saying aren’t mutually exclusive.