[ His question twists her smile up into something a little embarrassed, and she laughs, rocking back on her heels and ducking her head. ]
I. You? [ She looks up at him with a smile that is half a wince. ] You. Thor, I ... I've been looking. I mean, in the past couple of weeks my research hasn't exactly been careening along thanks to SHIELD moving me to Norway where there was nothing for me to do and-- well--
... the first year was pretty exciting. All the new funding, the gadgets I got to use - not to mention build, do you have any idea how much easier it is to monitor atmospheric phenomena when you have a quantum scanner, you can pick up the tiniest fluctuations with that much computing power, it was incredible, and I started working on a theory! It, um. It all got pretty far. But about a year and a half in, I just ... I wasn't finding anything anymore.
[ She moves through emotions as she talks, from irritation to excitement to wistful wonder to a sort of resigned frustration. ]
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I know.
[ His question twists her smile up into something a little embarrassed, and she laughs, rocking back on her heels and ducking her head. ]
I. You? [ She looks up at him with a smile that is half a wince. ] You. Thor, I ... I've been looking. I mean, in the past couple of weeks my research hasn't exactly been careening along thanks to SHIELD moving me to Norway where there was nothing for me to do and-- well--
... the first year was pretty exciting. All the new funding, the gadgets I got to use - not to mention build, do you have any idea how much easier it is to monitor atmospheric phenomena when you have a quantum scanner, you can pick up the tiniest fluctuations with that much computing power, it was incredible, and I started working on a theory! It, um. It all got pretty far. But about a year and a half in, I just ... I wasn't finding anything anymore.
[ She moves through emotions as she talks, from irritation to excitement to wistful wonder to a sort of resigned frustration. ]