A metal one. [Steve sighs a little, but it's something they've both accepted, as wardens. Or something, at least, that they try to accept.]

Sometimes that's all you can do. God knows it's how I've ended plenty of arguments. [He and Bucky are too stubborn to actually forget it. So they just stop, and stop talking about it.]

Maybe it was just a product of the, uh, world, you know? It was an acceptable risk we all were willing to take, to defend it. I mean, at least, it seemed acceptable to me at the time.

[Maybe it's one that they would take here, too - well. Some of them. Steve doesn't think he could. He's got too much at stake.]