[ And he may or may not freeze when she does express that affection, but it's just in a 'surprised you didn't do that before very often' kind of way, that quickly melts away into something that makes him feel warm and happy and totally brushes whatever negativity however minor it was he was feeling straight out the window. His body shifts in increments to melt up along her, and his arm around her is secure but not confining. It's clear he wants her there but it's equally clear that he's not keeping her there should she not want to be.
Tony tends to discount the verbal to a large degree anyway, given how easily given, mistaken, taken, twisted, misunderstood, and untruthful the verbal can be. Not that physical affection isn't much the same, simply that he has a much easier time trusting one over the other, and things like what she just did, and indeed all of what she's just done, that... That is what he believes. ] You're generally pretty knowledgeable about things like... all of that.
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Tony tends to discount the verbal to a large degree anyway, given how easily given, mistaken, taken, twisted, misunderstood, and untruthful the verbal can be. Not that physical affection isn't much the same, simply that he has a much easier time trusting one over the other, and things like what she just did, and indeed all of what she's just done, that... That is what he believes. ] You're generally pretty knowledgeable about things like... all of that.