Not at all. [ Quietly, ] She cried. She seems bleakly convinced that nothing she can say will change my mind, our minds. Which in and of itself might just be a ploy to get my guard down and evoke some sympathy,

[ he’s still paranoid, all the time, ]

but still. Point being, she’s not aggressive.

[ Be kind if you can, he almost says; but he manages to bite it back at just the last moment, not wanting a replay of Stephen Strange standing between Wanda and a teenaged girl. He knows how it looks. Where was the rest of the world when Wanda Maximoff needed kindness?

So, just this: trust. ]

I’ll be very interested in what you manage to find out.