"What I know intellectually and what I feel are pretty different. My SHIELD handler said that's part of why I need to be here." Well, that and his SHIELD handler was a bit of a 'bro' who had declared Ilya needed to gt laid, but Ilya was steadfastly ignoring that because that would involve a lot more social skills than he even wanted to envision learning.

He sank back into his chair, relieved. "Spasibo, velikiy i moguchiy vorona v'nebe. I - I'm really not good with talking about it. I don't know why, but even though I talked to people at SHIELD about it, it's just really hard to get into. The whole thing makes me feel like I'm going to be sick and I don't know why... maybe I can work on that? I'll try, but I don't think I can get comfortable with it overnight. Is that okay?"