Ned listens to Clint's explanation in attentive silence, helping him up the steps when they get to them and holding the door open. Once again, the things that he is describing sound ludicrous and impossible to Ned, but he tries not to question them, because ludicrous and impossible is sort of the new normal, in this place.
"No, I've never heard of him. But it sounds from the way you're asking like I ought to have." He isn't sure how up to speed Clint is on the particular mechanics of this place, adds as he's shutting the door behind them, "I might not be from your universe. That would explain the discrepancy."
He might not be the most up-to-date person in terms of world news, but none of what Clint is talking about sounds plausible or familiar. What is 'SHIELD'? Why did he call it 'that crap with Hitler' and not just World War II? How many of these things are classified, how many are speech quirks of Clint's, and how many are genuine signs of difference? Ned can't be sure.
From the sound of it, though, Clint's starved for a bit of company and conversation, so Ned says, "How'd you end up knowing all these people?" Don't mind him if he just steers the two of them into the kitchen. He's still got that perfectly good lunch that he made Clint waiting on the counter, and he is going to eat it, by God. Food here is too scarce for any to go to waste, and he needs to keep his strength up if he's going to recover.
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"No, I've never heard of him. But it sounds from the way you're asking like I ought to have." He isn't sure how up to speed Clint is on the particular mechanics of this place, adds as he's shutting the door behind them, "I might not be from your universe. That would explain the discrepancy."
He might not be the most up-to-date person in terms of world news, but none of what Clint is talking about sounds plausible or familiar. What is 'SHIELD'? Why did he call it 'that crap with Hitler' and not just World War II? How many of these things are classified, how many are speech quirks of Clint's, and how many are genuine signs of difference? Ned can't be sure.
From the sound of it, though, Clint's starved for a bit of company and conversation, so Ned says, "How'd you end up knowing all these people?" Don't mind him if he just steers the two of them into the kitchen. He's still got that perfectly good lunch that he made Clint waiting on the counter, and he is going to eat it, by God. Food here is too scarce for any to go to waste, and he needs to keep his strength up if he's going to recover.