The answer's no, and everyone in this room knows it. If they hadn't before - Riley, maybe - they do now, given the way his jaw clenches tight at the question.

Barnes is standing perfectly still, he notices, and perfectly silent, apparently calm and undisturbed by any of this. "Going back on your promise?" Ross snaps at him. It's a cheap shot, born of frustration, and he regrets it almost as soon as he says it -- the more so when he sees the way the man goes pale as a corpse, the way Rogers grips his shoulder and gives Ross one of those level, disappointed looks of his.

He turns back to T'Challa. "There are other ways, surely," he grits out. "I'm trying to help avoid escalation, your highness."