[ Less than a dozen. Is that good or bad, in these circumstances? An entire ship going down? It's hard to say, when even one death would hang heavy on the conscience for an unknowable amount of time.
But then Adrien adds a name to it, and Tony goes momentarily, uncharacteristically still. What does it take to kill a super soldier? Something catastrophic, to be sure, since a ship going down didn't cut it the first time. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play.
Cap went down with the ship, almost certainly.
Well... that figures, doesn't it? Tony'd already suspected. Steve would've been all over the recovery and retrieval efforts, if he'd actually been there to do so. But that's one more confirmation of what he'd already been afraid of: despite their efforts, they didn't get everybody off in time. ]
Takes a lot to bring that guy down.
[ Muttered to nobody in particular, really. Just words for the sake of words. He sets the now-empty water bottle down, a little heavily. ]
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But then Adrien adds a name to it, and Tony goes momentarily, uncharacteristically still. What does it take to kill a super soldier? Something catastrophic, to be sure, since a ship going down didn't cut it the first time. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play.
Cap went down with the ship, almost certainly.
Well... that figures, doesn't it? Tony'd already suspected. Steve would've been all over the recovery and retrieval efforts, if he'd actually been there to do so. But that's one more confirmation of what he'd already been afraid of: despite their efforts, they didn't get everybody off in time. ]
Takes a lot to bring that guy down.
[ Muttered to nobody in particular, really. Just words for the sake of words. He sets the now-empty water bottle down, a little heavily. ]