[It was a good thing that Rumlow was a double-agent otherwise he might have laughed at the claim of being out of town. There had been discussion of thawing the Soldier during that attack, take out HYDRA's enemies and blame it on the chitauri, but in the end, they had opted to remain in the shadows.]

Yeah, alien invasions seem like a theme since I've been here. Guess like me, you experienced one of the not so friendly alien species, yeah?

[He huffed and made a bit of a show of unlacing his boots and handing one over. They were military grade, black and well worn. The kind of boots that STRIKE wore for most of their careers.]

I think it's classy, but what do I know?

[He gathered up the cards again and began to shuffle, putting the cards in his favour for this round. Sometimes luck had everything to do with how the cards fell and other times it was simply how the dealer handled them.]

It's individual, but I heard good things about meditation. Depends if you're not sleeping because of anxiety, nightmares, or everything in between. I used to get a lot of memories myself when I slept, things that came after a blur of the day. Just little things I knew about and reacted to but otherwise missed when stacked against everything else. I'd wake, ponder it, go back to sleep... rinse and repeat.