[ First time he's seen Sam like this. Steve steps inside, finding a place to stand near the desk as his gaze falls on the sleeping figure in the bed. ]

Don't think there's much preparing for this. [ His mouth twists to one side and he looks away, arms crossing over his chest. ] I asked the Prince about why they... go out like this. He said it's something to do with the connection between us and the symbiote going bad. [ His gaze lifts again to where Clint's resting. Side effects. There's usually a difference between the the temporary sleep and the more permanent kind, the one that gets you sent back to the Station. The people in the sleeper's brood could more easily tell when it first started to happen, that sense of something fading.

That's how he could tell with Sam Anders. ]