[ the good thing about reading, rather, is that you have to actually pay attention to it, given you don't have the next word memorized. counting can easily be done without a second thought. granted, it'd probably work better with something more interesting, but. sam hasn't had much of a chance to go book shopping yet. ]

Might wanna grab something more engaging later, but for now, it'll probably be better than staring at a wall and just thinking real hard at it.

[ Bucky's taken the book, at least, and while he doesn't seem to be doing anything else with it, that's at least progress. Something a lot worse than just showing up here had to have happened to this guy, to be so freaked out. not that it isn't obvious, with the state of him. carefully, Sam paces back, pulling out a chair near a dining table, and sits his ass down, giving Bucky as much space as he likes. there's other chairs around he can snag if he likes, but he's hardly going to tell the guy what to do. ]

Exercise is good too. Not that there's much room to do it in here. I usually go for runs in the morning. [ a beat, sam just talking for the sake of giving the man something to latch onto. outside of the mental noise. ] You're welcome to come with sometime, if you want.