"Somehow, I'm not surprised by that." He'd been kidnapped without trace--he couldn't even remember it happening. That spoke to wanting to have as little direct contact with their... whatever all the people here were, to the people who had brought them here. He didn't imagine they'd be told much.

"It's a pleasure, Natasha," he replies, looking down at her, a bit surprised by her question. "2016. And you?"