[ It was a facetious bit of specificity, but it's nice for her to confirm it anyway. And he typically does enjoy her ideas, normally. When he gives them time to come to the fruition she was looking for, he does, anyway.

He feels like he should have been expecting something like that, but it doesn't make it any less surprising when it happens, when she pulls back, and then pulls back a second time, completely. He watches her, carefully, because she's being particularly cagey right now and he's not sure why. He doesn't have a problem with it, and when she starts to walk away, he definitely moves to follow her - he always follows Pepper. It's just how it goes. But he doesn't know why she's acting like this, and that itself is intriguing enough to provoke pursuit, even if the opportunity to watch her walk from behind wasn't incentive enough.

It is pretty quiet though. ] You sound like you already have. I'm not sure how I feel about you not telling me anything right now, you've been pretty vague. It's great, staying here longer, that's totally cool, but. Vague. What are we doing?