Surprise, followed by disbelief, and then intrigue passes over Steve's features. "There's a manual?"

It's not lost on Steve that Annie doesn't want to answer the question. He could kick himself for prying, especially after he said he wasn't going to do that.

Crossing his hands across his chest as she speaks, he nods curtly when she's done. He hates that the future of any version of Earth ends up being such a place. Isn't that what he's spent half of his life trying to fight against?

"I'm sorry," he says, both for asking and her living conditions back home. And he truly is. He doesn't know the full situation, and he's not going to ask more but he won't turn her away from talking if she wants to, but if he could change it for her, for them, he would.

Changing the subject a bit, he latches onto something else she's said. "This," he waves a hand to indicate where they are, "they have an Earth as well? I was..." He frowns slightly. "I guess I don't really know what I thought, but I didn't think..." He can't get his mind quite wrapped around what he means or what he's trying to say. The idea of being in the future and of multiple worlds is still very new.