"Who was the heavy rocker back in your day then? The one that makes mom and pop tell you you're just listening to noise instead of music?" he sort of vaguely concedes, taking another bite.
As she continues, he listens a bit more calmly than he had been before, leftover energy from trying to make something work bleeding back into the gradual build up of the stuff he's got slowly increasing the pressure on him to figure all of this out. He has to figure this all out, he can't stay here; time dilation and chicanery aside, the world might be ending back home and even regardless he can't be stuck here. He doesn't do well with stuck.
He deflates a little, when she's done - not entirely, but enough - and sort of sighs. "Yeah, I know. Technically they might not even be waiting, on their end. That would be nice. Romanoff and Rogers are both here from after me and they didn't even notice I'd gone missing in their timeline. Of course, that also means there could be multiple timelines..." He trails off a bit to regather his thoughts from where they were scattering elsewhere. "I get the farming, I get the repairs, but why not an all out go at the border, all of us? Sometimes you have to take the risk." Despite the argument he's making, his tone and delivery suggest he already knows the reasons and is just... frustrated. The lack of options here, the lack of any ability to produce your own options, it's just maddening.
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As she continues, he listens a bit more calmly than he had been before, leftover energy from trying to make something work bleeding back into the gradual build up of the stuff he's got slowly increasing the pressure on him to figure all of this out. He has to figure this all out, he can't stay here; time dilation and chicanery aside, the world might be ending back home and even regardless he can't be stuck here. He doesn't do well with stuck.
He deflates a little, when she's done - not entirely, but enough - and sort of sighs. "Yeah, I know. Technically they might not even be waiting, on their end. That would be nice. Romanoff and Rogers are both here from after me and they didn't even notice I'd gone missing in their timeline. Of course, that also means there could be multiple timelines..." He trails off a bit to regather his thoughts from where they were scattering elsewhere. "I get the farming, I get the repairs, but why not an all out go at the border, all of us? Sometimes you have to take the risk." Despite the argument he's making, his tone and delivery suggest he already knows the reasons and is just... frustrated. The lack of options here, the lack of any ability to produce your own options, it's just maddening.