[ The application of 'silvertongue' isn't limited to verbal lies, but there is no malice in his current actions. His voice grows a touch softer when he next speaks; the superficial formality drops. ]
Do you miss it? [ He is deliberately reaching for the toast as he asks, first to indulge what he surmises as her desire for him to try her 'home'-cooked dish before partaking herself, and second to give them both something less personal to fall back onto if she exhibits discomfort with the topic.
Loki is genuinely curious about the brother Wanda has mentioned several times now. His name seems less heavier on her lips tonight, but who is he to know how the matter of Pietro weighs in her heart? So he does not even reference him directly.
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Do you miss it? [ He is deliberately reaching for the toast as he asks, first to indulge what he surmises as her desire for him to try her 'home'-cooked dish before partaking herself, and second to give them both something less personal to fall back onto if she exhibits discomfort with the topic.
Loki is genuinely curious about the brother Wanda has mentioned several times now. His name seems less heavier on her lips tonight, but who is he to know how the matter of Pietro weighs in her heart? So he does not even reference him directly.
'It.' Home. Such a loaded word. ]