[ She can more or less assuage her self-doubt with the knowledge that she is amongst the four total people in his entire life in whom he feels he can definitively place any significant level of trust. Four might seem like a fair number, but when you consider it's basically one of those four, or something he created himself, it brings it into an altogether different light. They might all garner independently high levels, but after you realize that it's a high level or effectively none at all, it changes the perspective somewhat. Tony's trust is more or less all or nothing, because he doesn't do well with gradients or half-ways, and it's probably unfair of him as a whole but at the same time, it doesn't feel as though there's much he can do about it.
And that's the faintest hint of levity on his face, just there. For a moment. ] Yeah, I know.
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And that's the faintest hint of levity on his face, just there. For a moment. ] Yeah, I know.