"Shit, talk about hitting the ground running." It doesn't surprise him that they'd throw some people into one of those things unprepared, but then - why take him now, when he's got time to learn how things are and get settled?

Maybe it's just that it's boring, doing the same thing every time.

It's a terrible thought, Barnes getting thrown into an arena fresh after what'd happened in DC, but Sam isn't going to ask about it. Maybe on their fourth or fifth conversation after neither of them have tried to shoot the other.

"What do you do, between arenas?"