[ An initial snort at the ridiculousness of that sentence cuts itself off as the content catches up with him. Then there's a long silence from Stephen, just staring at Tony - or perhaps through him as that file comes in - processing the individual parts of what he was just told.
The furrow between his brows gradually deepens. His eyes flick briefly away as he tunes the file back out and finds himself still staring directly at Tony, looking instead at some indeterminate point of the counter base beside him as he stretches the quiet on another second more. Amazing, to have rendered Stephen Strange speechless twice in the space of five minutes.
Finally, because the silence is getting loud enough that even he can hear it— ]
... Huh.
[ There's about as much humor in it as he can reasonably dig up, given he's just realised this is probably what one Kai Parker was referencing a long time ago in a theatre not so very far away. He looks back up at Tony, expression tinged with the edges of something wry, hesitant to let it be fully anything until he's figured out where exactly that puts them now.
But it's typical, isn't it? That their reunion would be this stupid with complexity. And maybe that, if nothing else, is something they can laugh about. ]
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The furrow between his brows gradually deepens. His eyes flick briefly away as he tunes the file back out and finds himself still staring directly at Tony, looking instead at some indeterminate point of the counter base beside him as he stretches the quiet on another second more. Amazing, to have rendered Stephen Strange speechless twice in the space of five minutes.
Finally, because the silence is getting loud enough that even he can hear it— ]
... Huh.
[ There's about as much humor in it as he can reasonably dig up, given he's just realised this is probably what one Kai Parker was referencing a long time ago in a theatre not so very far away. He looks back up at Tony, expression tinged with the edges of something wry, hesitant to let it be fully anything until he's figured out where exactly that puts them now.
But it's typical, isn't it? That their reunion would be this stupid with complexity. And maybe that, if nothing else, is something they can laugh about. ]
Lucky you.
[ Badum tsh. ]