The child nods.

He stops doing anything that makes Adam cry harder. "We're going to get you to someone who can take care of you." 

"They said you would hurt me."

"We aren't going to hurt you." 

Outside. 

"I would have volunteered to take Adam but, uh."

"Yes," he agrees. He takes Adam into the helicarrier, doesn't check to see if Asher is following. 

Asher is following!

He enters the front room of the helicarrier and glances around to see if Sasha is there.

Sasha very deliberately isn't looking at anyone, but he especially isn't looking at Asher. 

He puts Adam down in a chair and then sits, not right next to him but nearby. 

Asher is going to the back of the helicarrier now. 

He doesn't look at Sasha but it takes a visible effort. 

"Is this what outside looks like?"

"There are parts of outside that look like this. I can show you pictures of different parts, if you want." 

He contemplates this.

"There is a lot of outside."

"There is a lot of outside," he agrees. 

"Are you going to torture me to death?"

"We are not going to torture you, or kill you, or give you to anyone who would." 

"They said you would."

Sasha's phone goes off a bunch of times with Asher's ringtone, then once with Lev's ringtone, then two more times with Asher's ringtone.

He calls Lev. 

"Hey," he says, as quiet as he can while still being fairly sure he'll be heard. 

"Jarvis said you were..."

"...I was," he says, in Russian. He doesn't really want to have this conversation in English. "But I'm okay, Lev, I promise. Scar's already fading." 

He switches to Russian. "How did you...?"

"I can't tell you. It isn't something I can rely on and it wasn't really me, please don't ask me any more than that, I don't want to have to lie to you." Still in Russian. 

"Is it a 'I can't tell you' thing or a 'I can't tell you and also you can't go poking it with your power and find out' thing?"

"It's a 'someone did me a favor and I have promised to keep it extremely secret so they don't get in trouble for it, please don't undermine my efforts to keep that promise' thing."