[ He rubbed at his face a little bit, focusing his eyes again and trying to rub some sort of extra energy into his brain from the frictional contact on the front of his head. Even for him, this was scraping the bottom of the barrel, pushing that whole 'sleep, what's that?' and 'food is for babies i'll eat when i'm dead' mentality that didn't really show up when he was in the middle of a good kick in as much as it seemed to do well enough to explain to people afterwards that he just, honestly didn't realize he was hungry and tired until other people started to point it out for him, and that was just annoying, because he hadn't felt it until right then and now he did and he was still working so just go back upstairs and stop talking, mute, go, thank you, bye.
But this had been maybe three or four days and he was tired and hungry and maybe he could turn on a light or two and stop feverishly working on whatever it was he was working on down here in the dark like he was some sort of -- he couldn't even finish the metaphor. Whatever. This was dumb.
Tony straightened up, which JARVIS took as an unsaid cue to raise the lights again, not all the way, but to illuminate enough for someone who was ostensibly about to become ambulatory after staying in one dark place for a very long time, and -- ] How long have you been there?
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But this had been maybe three or four days and he was tired and hungry and maybe he could turn on a light or two and stop feverishly working on whatever it was he was working on down here in the dark like he was some sort of -- he couldn't even finish the metaphor. Whatever. This was dumb.
Tony straightened up, which JARVIS took as an unsaid cue to raise the lights again, not all the way, but to illuminate enough for someone who was ostensibly about to become ambulatory after staying in one dark place for a very long time, and -- ] How long have you been there?