Steve around and exhaled a deep breath, "I don't think it'll ever be anything but strange. The city was always busy, but in this day it was even busier. Now, it's just haunting. Never thought it could be this quiet."
With that he rose from his bike and stepped over to the man while extending his hand for a firm handshake. "Good to meet you too, Major. I might not have been out in this, but there were things that needed to do. " Not that being out in the cold for no reason was a favorite pastime, but when things needed to be done, they needed to be done.
"I'm on my way back to the tower, you're welcome to come by if you'd like, I believe I owe you a drink and we owe stories. There are empty places around here if you'd prefer." It seemed strange to just walk into places and help one's self, but that was the way Carter was maintaining it, and it was for that very purpose. Of course the man was always free to refuse; he may have had an agenda himself that precluded such things, might have had an idea for where he wanted to go.