[ Lentil party time, it's imminent on the horizon. Cooking a meal for Tony can't make up for him zooming all the way out to Mexico in the suit and taking Bruce back in a plane, but it's a start. ]

Mm. I don't really talk to these people that much. Not if I can help it.

[ Sucks to get attached. He's allowing himself Tony as a concession because it's more than a little freeing to have someone around who isn't prone to tiptoeing around his irritability. ]

How's your flight going? Hit any birds yet?