It shitted out a while ago. Before I showed up. [People were staying dead, no one was allowed to leave, the ship was practically on its last legs. Maybe the Admiral was even dying, who knows?

It was done by the time he showed up, but people were still picking up the pieces, and he knows this Barge is kind of looking a little like the one everyone had said he'd just signed up for. So.]

Seemed like it was working the way people wanted it to before we got stuck here.

[Part of him wants to ask more, demand answers, because he still doesn't get why Steve gives a shit, but that would be turning over control to Steve, and he's not doing that, so he just settles for watching him from across the table, waiting for his reaction or a cue to see where to take this next.]