"And you've just jinxed it." Newer habits to tip into with the banter and like this, back to the door, it's okay to stand and talk and pull himself into the present. Takes longer than it would back home but- no bots, no workshop, very little that's familiar and comforting aside from Steve and that's a little loaded, isn't it?

Three, maybe five sips of water and a minute or so of examining the carpet while he waits for his heart rate to drop pass before he pushes from the door to drop into the nearest chair. There's no swagger, no saunter, no show. Just an exhausted arrangement of limbs and cotton. "Been catching up on the headlines I missed. Plenty can change in two weeks; you were right. Ross shot himself in the foot with this one."