"And if you want to live long enough to see the other side of whatever glory there might be, you need me," he replied coldly, aware that it was true. No one escaped him when he wanted to find them, and there was no way that he was going to let this single opportunity slip away from him regardless of how annoyed she might be with him. She was easy to ire, but her emotions tended to boil into something warm and pleasurable, so he wasn't going to complain much. It was all part of getting what he wanted.

"And do you see them storming the building coming to get me because of it?" He stepped closer as if to prove his point about his own freedom right now. He stood in a shrine to a life that had fallen into the cold, no more than a passing salute the man he once was. "You can't evade me, Sarah. You can't evade Hydra forever either, and what's the point of a fool's quest if you aren't given some information for your troubles?"

He turned his face aside from her attempt to badger him. He could crush her skull if it suited him after all. "You need your tongue to interrogate people, so I'll let it slide this time."