"It wasn't faith, or the right choice, just. There wasn't anything that could have stopped it, and. Enough people had gotten hurt already. Way more than enough."

Bruce squirms a bit in his seat, more than a little uncomfortable. It's one part his usual not knowing what to do in conversation, more parts talking about his episodes, and even more parts being uncertain what to do with being called a hero. So he latches onto something else.

"Erskine? That's." His forehead wrinkles a bit, trying to remember where he's heard that name before. "I think I've read some of his work," he says slowly, chewing on his lip until it hits him. "It was mostly B- Uh. Another scientist's focus than mine, I was all in--" There's a general hand-wave as to where he was before getting back to point. "Anyway, what little the General let us see, you know, in between the edits, that is, it was. It was brilliant stuff. Th-"

Wait, something does not make sense. Bruce had assumed that Dr. Erskine was just another scientist Ross had contracted on another project, and he hadn't presumed that he knew the community well enough to know everyone. But if Steve...

"How did you know him?"