It's not that I would have you ask anything specific, but rather that for a man who seems to be as knowledgeable as you are, you don't seem very inquisitive. It strikes me as odd because--
[--because he has to be getting his information from somewhere. Her mind races ahead, trying to put the pieces together automatically.
He doesn't ask questions because he has the answers.
He already has the answers to what he wants to know because no doubt there are people who give it all away in conversation. Like this one. All he has to do is sit and wait for her to speak and she gives up much about herself, her personality, her motives and focus. And if he isn't speaking then surely it means that he's simply picking things up or intuiting them in a way similar to herself.
And anything he couldn't glean from other people without their knowing could perhaps be discovered through over avenues, so that he acquires the answers he wants without someone knowing he has them? She doesn't have a confirmation but the way that her own line of reasoning jumps forward reminds her of Natasha and some of what the spy has imparted to her over the last year.
It's been a while since Wanda's been made aware of her own inexperience compared to those around her, that as great as her powers are there are others still, more subtle by far, who manage as much as she does without her particular brand of cosmic abilities. The feeling is humbling in retrospect, that he might have managed far better in learning what he wants and giving away nothing, and all with powers like her own at his fingertips.
Perhaps the better question might have been to ask him how much he's managed it all without asking any questions at all. But she's figured it out. Or at least she thinks that she has.]
Nevermind. [Spoon still in hand, she gathers another morsel of beef for herself, regarding James now as if she has several more questions to ask him, none of which she'll give voice to.]
no subject
[--because he has to be getting his information from somewhere. Her mind races ahead, trying to put the pieces together automatically.
He doesn't ask questions because he has the answers.
He already has the answers to what he wants to know because no doubt there are people who give it all away in conversation. Like this one. All he has to do is sit and wait for her to speak and she gives up much about herself, her personality, her motives and focus. And if he isn't speaking then surely it means that he's simply picking things up or intuiting them in a way similar to herself.
And anything he couldn't glean from other people without their knowing could perhaps be discovered through over avenues, so that he acquires the answers he wants without someone knowing he has them? She doesn't have a confirmation but the way that her own line of reasoning jumps forward reminds her of Natasha and some of what the spy has imparted to her over the last year.
It's been a while since Wanda's been made aware of her own inexperience compared to those around her, that as great as her powers are there are others still, more subtle by far, who manage as much as she does without her particular brand of cosmic abilities. The feeling is humbling in retrospect, that he might have managed far better in learning what he wants and giving away nothing, and all with powers like her own at his fingertips.
Perhaps the better question might have been to ask him how much he's managed it all without asking any questions at all. But she's figured it out. Or at least she thinks that she has.]
Nevermind. [Spoon still in hand, she gathers another morsel of beef for herself, regarding James now as if she has several more questions to ask him, none of which she'll give voice to.]