"Sounds good. I know I joke about my bachelor kitchen, but I promise I've never actually burned anything down." A beat. "While cooking." Arson is a completely different thing entirely.

He knows this is frustrating to Phil, but he keeps giving Clint space, and he takes it greedily. Gives him enough room to wiggle around and maneuver. He should maybe give more in return. Give something else. He licks his lips.

"I'm cleared for light active duty. Mostly just been quiet short recon trips. Probably gonna go back to the full shebang in the next few weeks. I hope. I don't think anything that's knocked loose in my head is gonna be any kind of liability in the field."