Only the mouth full of food Steve had then kept the man from laughing aloud at the implication that as one of those superheroes it all should sound a little less crazy to him. It was crazy, plain and simple. All of it. Incomplete serums that turned men into monsters, alien armies from across the galaxy, hotels with doors to other worlds, all of it. Having met a man who had been turned by Gamma Radiation into a green Hulk when his anger took hold and himself being a man who had survived being frozen for seventy years made none of it the least bit less ridiculous.

After chewing and swallowing, he tipped his head in the mental review of all he had yet seen of the Nexus and its universe. "No idea, really." Where he stole a pause for a long gulp of water, it was not without space enough to consider the pieces of the puzzle he had seen thus far. Or, rather, what he hadn't seen. "As far as I can tell it's not playing one direction or another. The people inside it seem to be what's at play here, good and bad."