[ It's not till Bucky says the words 'Don't try to crawl inside mine' that Will recognizes that he's been doing the very thing he's been terrified of Anderson doing to him. It's a stark realization, an uncomfortable one and where Bucky has seen kindness, Will feels as though he's been anything but considerate.

In this realization, he takes a breath and genuinely offers what he can. ]

It's not something I can turn off, believe me I wish I could. [ Perception; a lens that turned both ways and rarely gave either viewer a reprieve. ] But I will do my best to honor your request James, and keep my psychoanalyzing to myself.

[ To treat James as a person, not an observation.

And he will start by not pointing out the difference between killing people and designing their destruction. Won't point out that were James the monster he believes himself to be, he wouldn't be the conflicted, tortured mind that had come to find out if Will was alright why a virtual stranger hadn't turned him in.

That were James a monster at his core, he would have killed Will in that alley and felt joy in it. ]

Well, to myself and the actual monsters outside the walls. [ He continued, offering them both a distraction from the subject of each other. Perhaps he could have asked after Sasha, he wanted too, but he was concerned that could turn them back down the path of what happened the other night.

Instead he sat up and tapped at his notes. ]

I'm putting together a small team to go out, northwest of the city to follow up on the work of a previous team to gather soil samples. Apparently, it's good soil for farming but the area is infested with over-sized alien hogs.

Have you had any experience with them?