[He doesn't know her. If she hadn't picked up on the weird things going on here she might have been more concerned, but as it was, she just shrugs her shoulders and smiles a little lopsided. In less than a half second she's resolved it'd probably be best to tell him some of the truth, but maybe not all of the truth.

Weaponized quantum entanglement was not a phrase to lead with. The explanation she gives is mostly true; it just leaves out the things she'd rather not discuss.] Ava Orlova. I was in the SHIELD Academy. There was a mishap that basically made me into a living battery. No one else had a clue, so you ended up running tests. Then the whole Hydra thing happened, and I guess I just...

[She trails off, a gesture around them. Aimless, cut adrift. That was how you ended up here, right?]