"I don't want to stay, if it's working for an entity," Steve confirms; there's a part of him that vividly remembers the conversation he and Winter had in the gym, after that lobster mission, when Steve had been... not thinking clearly, he thinks. There's sort of a weird haze of anger and self-loathing coloring all his thoughts of that week.

It scares him, knowing how easily he could have gone down a bad path. How much he still could, if he's not careful, and if ADI is run by an avatar, even if they might mean well...

"There are other people I want to talk to, too. Maybe it won't just be the three of us. But if it is, then that's what it is, and we'll make it work. As a team."

That's important - working together. Supporting each other. "We don't have to walk out the door just yet. But I think we should be ready. Just in case."