The outburst surprised Gladio. It again made him realise that he hadn't actually spoken and he wasnt entirely sure why other than he'd just wanted to get his thoughts organised first. He was learning things on the fly here and it was hard working through them when someone was sat beside him eagerly waiting for his next word. Or needing to know what was going on in his head.

And wasn't that a revelation in itself? Usually no one cared much about what he was thinking... No one bothered to ask. So maybe Gladio kept things inside a bit more than he would have liked. But now Tony had his attention.

"Why won't it work for us?" Gladio, picking through the things he could say, finally settled on that. "Can't do what this way?"