"Usually money they get from blowing things up. Or destroying people."
The question catches her by surprise, a reminder of the sprawling stretch of time between where she comes from and where he did. "HYDRA broke after you came here," she says. "Not gone - I think probably they are still not really gone - but shattered. All of the worst people in the world swooped in to scavenge what they could before it was boxed up and hauled away by some government, or the Avengers came and set it on fire." She smiles, thin and fleeting and humourless. "I think Dreykov enjoyed sending me on those missions, because he knew Natasha would hate it if she knew."
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The question catches her by surprise, a reminder of the sprawling stretch of time between where she comes from and where he did. "HYDRA broke after you came here," she says. "Not gone - I think probably they are still not really gone - but shattered. All of the worst people in the world swooped in to scavenge what they could before it was boxed up and hauled away by some government, or the Avengers came and set it on fire." She smiles, thin and fleeting and humourless. "I think Dreykov enjoyed sending me on those missions, because he knew Natasha would hate it if she knew."