The look on Peter’s face reads as something caught between the crossroads of impressed, startled, pleased, and— maybe a little unsettled?
Like, that is for sure some Stepford Wives crap going on.
But the tree guardian thing doesn’t seem particularly verbose – another similarity it and the old Groot apparently shared – and rather than respond in words, it shifts. The rasp of bark-on-bark, the groaning of old wood, makes Peter rock back a little, but the tree dude just seems to be kneeling down. ]
... Huh.
[ Peter blinks at the thing for a second or two, almost a little uncertain, then, to Rocket, ]
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The look on Peter’s face reads as something caught between the crossroads of impressed, startled, pleased, and— maybe a little unsettled?
Like, that is for sure some Stepford Wives crap going on.
But the tree guardian thing doesn’t seem particularly verbose – another similarity it and the old Groot apparently shared – and rather than respond in words, it shifts. The rasp of bark-on-bark, the groaning of old wood, makes Peter rock back a little, but the tree dude just seems to be kneeling down. ]
... Huh.
[ Peter blinks at the thing for a second or two, almost a little uncertain, then, to Rocket, ]
... after you?