[ Tony couldn't be able to say for certain that Black Widow is capable of surprising him by virtue of the fact that she is notoriously difficult to predict in the first place. Even demonstrations of kindness and humour aren't a shock when those are the things that seemed built in already.

Anyway. He stops himself from asking if she can run that one by him one more time. Fingers fan out, rearrange back into their tangle. ]

Mhm.

[ His turn. ]

Well. I think you could be onto something, Romanoff.

[ He hooks a finger around the handle of the mug, drawing it closer. He's not not a tea guy, in the way that people who have been hard drinkers with occasional side ventures legal and less than legal stimulants might tend to embrace literally any mood stabilising alternative including weird leafy brews that taste like dirt tend to be. But he has other vices. ]

Not right now as in not right this second, or-- other small units of measurement. I mean, this is the first I've thought about it, so.