"It's going to take a while," they say heavily. "And there's a lot of it you're not going to like." (We shouldn't tell him he's probably dead. Not sure if we can get around that, pal, if you tell him you're dead.)

"I'll show you where things are while we talk, anyway. The kitchen and dining hall are back that way--" They jerk a metal thumb back over their shoulder. "Along with the quiet car, where there's soundproof little cabins." They're heading into the gym car, now, which Steve will probably recognize for what it is, even if it's longer than gyms usually are. "You're uh, you're red team--" The fighting team. There goes any desire Soldat ever had to do missions with their own team. "--so you're on cooking this month. I'm subbing in there, actually, myself, because most of red team doesn't know how to boil water."