[ a snort. a household name, indeed. softly: ] He was one of those in my time, also. New York's bona fide war hero. [ and yet it was all a little more complicated than simple heroics. but she'd kept mum on muddying those waters. ]

But I've heard a little of what happened in New York. And then with the organization they called SHIELD.

[ they. as if it isn't herself, in the near future, who's destined to chose that name. ]