Her fingers clench on the rifle for a moment. Her teeth grind against each other tightly enough to be painful. Something inside her goes taut with tension immediately when he calls her by name. Tries to strike up a bond with her. Some of the others tried that - the difference is that her and this one have actual shared experience, however brief.
She was part of the invading army. She very nearly would have been part of Thanos' second victory in this timeline.
Perhaps that feeling in her chest is shame, not anger.
There's a stretch of silence. Then, almost too quiet in the space of the warehouse:
"Yes. I'm aware of your strength and your skill. As you are of mine. You must know you do not frighten me."
Not a question, that. The organisation of... SWORD dispatched him, so he must know what they know. Which she suspects isn't half of what the wider galaxy knows of her, but is admittedly more than she'd have assumed humans being able to gather together from what little exposure to her they had. Humans are known throughout the galaxy for being strange - and perhaps that tendency to underestimate them is why they, in the end, bested Thanos where the galaxy at large failed.
MEET CUTE
Her fingers clench on the rifle for a moment. Her teeth grind against each other tightly enough to be painful. Something inside her goes taut with tension immediately when he calls her by name. Tries to strike up a bond with her. Some of the others tried that - the difference is that her and this one have actual shared experience, however brief.
She was part of the invading army. She very nearly would have been part of Thanos' second victory in this timeline.
Perhaps that feeling in her chest is shame, not anger.
There's a stretch of silence. Then, almost too quiet in the space of the warehouse:
"Yes. I'm aware of your strength and your skill. As you are of mine. You must know you do not frighten me."
Not a question, that. The organisation of... SWORD dispatched him, so he must know what they know. Which she suspects isn't half of what the wider galaxy knows of her, but is admittedly more than she'd have assumed humans being able to gather together from what little exposure to her they had. Humans are known throughout the galaxy for being strange - and perhaps that tendency to underestimate them is why they, in the end, bested Thanos where the galaxy at large failed.
"You're not as unkempt anymore."