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[jink]

Morning, ladies, gentlemen, those who aren't.

[In slacks and a plain shirt, Samantha is Ms. Wilson today, having foregone the goggles and wings that characterize her alter-ego, the Falcon, which is a name nobody besides herself (and occasionally Rogers, to humor her) (Romanoff also, for a different take on humor) actually makes use of. She props her elbows on the podium and flashes a smile.]

This question's partly professional. I work at the VA counseling center, so booze and weird spycraft is off-limits.

What makes self-disclosure easier for you? Of personal problems, especially?

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[prizvannyj]

[ he's not answering. it's not that he doesn't want to, because she's helped him a lot and it seems only fair to help back, right? but he doesn't know how to, and so he keeps quiet, expression blank. ]

[jink]

[Don't think that Sam doesn't notice. She has her eye on the man with the permanent glower now, and the fact he's taken off some eye-makeup and cut off eighty percent of his hair doesn't throw her off. She glances over him briefly. Continues talking.]

Part of military culture is the attitude that we should just walk it off, [she says.] So a good part of maintaining silence, of refuse to disclose, has to do with staying strong.

[prizvannyj]

[ there aren't a great many people that james knows. he knows steve in a way that goes deeper than his knowledge of his own self, and sam is part of steve's life.

doesn't mean sam necessarily wants to have him here. he figures that's what her emphasis means. he doesn't get up, though. ]

[jink]

Growing like twenty pounds of hair out of your head and heavy eye-makeup aren't enough self-expression for most people, [Sam goes on, brightly.] Unfortunately.

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[prizvannyj]

[ there's a narrowing of his eyes, head tilting to one side. there are a lot of things he doesn't understand, and his sense of self is still fragile enough that he doesn't feel insulted, but that doesn't mean he can't tell when someone is trying to insult him.

he doesn't understand sam wilson. she isn't actively hostile towards him. ( is she? does hostility include verbal attacks as well as physical action? ) ]