...Let's make a deal. I don't ask about it again and we both forget it ever happened aside from the closet confessional. [ Which was an emotional moment, easier to deal with than the idea of-

Threats, more than once, while in the cave, with injury, death, bodily harm. One day they weren't compliant quick enough and Yensin had a very pretty barrel pressed up against his temple and the threat had been more than enough- Tony nearly spilled the whole fucking plan then and there to keep them from pulling the trigger.

Eyes drifting in the middle distance he breathes, slowly, deliberately. Focusing on- not that. Not the idea of what he missed, on the fact that Steve is, apparently, missing. ]

Good? Good.