He doesn't seem surprised. He doesn't seem not surprised. Flipping another page of the book, she reads a few more lines (mostly for show), before snapping it shut and tossing it haphazardly on the coffee table. Bucky Barnes looks ... good. Good enough for a guy who ran away from protective custody and holed up in some Bulgarian backwater. His eyes are clear, expression open. He's lucid.

Some of the tension, imperceptible to most anyway, eases out of her shoulders. She's talking to Bucky Barnes. Not the Winter Soldier. She'd been ready for either, but honestly? This was the best case scenario.

"You didn't really think you could beat up the local mobsters and have no one notice? One of them has ties to the Kremlin, and has been making noise. It was either me or Ross," she replies, nonchalantly, nodding at the backpack. "You gonna serve us? I thought you army guys were all polite."

Doesn't answer the question of who sent her — but Steve feels like too weighted of a subject right now. Barnes had left Wakanda without a note, or even a text to Rogers. Had to be a reason, even if the reason was that he didn't feel he needed to give him a heads up.. and that's between the two of them, right?

"So. Get bored of hiding out with T'challa?" Not that she was exactly on speaking terms with him, either.