"Maybe the kind your were on." For people with normal-level bonds? People who weren't suddenly shifted People tried not to damper them. The bond was sacred, a good thing. So on and so forth.

Maybe for them it wouldn't be too outrageous to find ones that could damper a bondlink. Just for something less intense, less pulling. Sam looked back at his bonded with a flatness that clearly spoke to Rumlow answering his own question while he was asking it.

"But it's possible. I don't know. I haven't done this before, fyi. Cap says it's manageable but... he's sort of different too." Steve wasn't keen on being experimented on so he'd been told it was largely untested but there were loose theories of how the supersoldier serum enhanced the synchrony of bonding while allowing bondmates to survive apart with less strain.

Or it was just Steve being Steve.

Sam chewed on the inside of his mouth, wanting to mention the secondary plans that were in place just in case SHIELD didn't let both of them go in a way that was actually reasonable, which he'd been doubting the whole mission. They needed to tag along on the run to get Rumlow out, they didn't need them much after figuring out if Rumlow was going to stay stable.

"For the record, I'm going to say it makes no sense that this happened to us." And he'd heard of some cooky bonds.