[Tony hesitates.] Yeah, maybe. It's... experimental, though, and I'm not the one who created the Extremis serum, so I won't be able to tell you much.
[Which is all perfectly true, but also gives Tony an excuse to hold back what he does know. He's had someone feign interest in his science before in order to use him, and that resulted in all his friends becoming mind-control guinea pigs. And he's had someone hack into Extremis before, which nearly killed him.
He's a little less trusting now than he used to be.]
That's good programming, then. [He's still genuinely interested in the microbots - plus, keeping Callaghan talking about them will hopefully deflect some of his interest in Extremis.] Yours?
no subject
[Which is all perfectly true, but also gives Tony an excuse to hold back what he does know. He's had someone feign interest in his science before in order to use him, and that resulted in all his friends becoming mind-control guinea pigs. And he's had someone hack into Extremis before, which nearly killed him.
He's a little less trusting now than he used to be.]
That's good programming, then. [He's still genuinely interested in the microbots - plus, keeping Callaghan talking about them will hopefully deflect some of his interest in Extremis.] Yours?