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Relearning how to be a civilian.
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"We are like people at a wayside station, waiting between trains, or between planes.
We attend the cinema, consult our watches.
We sit down and stretch our legs, stare at the skylight.
We buy a paper and read it without comprehending.Noticing the whistles blowing, the crowds coming and going.
We listen for the porter to call sonorously the panel of destinations.Decorously the clock ticks; we await the roar of the transport”
----------------------------------------------------------The Asset was not waiting for extraction. He knew extraction was not coming. He had not been meant to survive the mission— after its success he would no longer be needed. The handlers did not explain why. He did not need to know.
So when everything went to hell, he knew that there was no team standing by to pick him up, and he had not received orders to report back to anyone or anywhere. It was likely that there was nothing left to report back to. Hydra will have scattered, at least for now.
So the Asset would disappear.