Neil smiles, blushing a little bit. It's a pretty glowing praise, as far as Neil's concerned, for any sort of first encounter. Clumsy as it was. He's good with pretty great, with the fact that they're looking at each other and Steve hasn't immediately tried to get up.

Sometimes it's small things that feel like victories, he supposes.

"It was," he agrees softly. "Though we're both kind of a mess."