Natasha listens to that explanation with interest, because it made sense, even to someone who didn't understand magic. She gave a faint smile as she bent back to scrubbing again, thinking all that over. "So what is it you learned from the others? Which ones have you encountered?"

Clint's not so easy a topic to talk about, even if things do seem to have reverted to something resembling normal and she wishes Pepper wasn't as observant as she was. "We're fine the way we are. We have been for a long while." And that could be enough. Would be, because the lack of him wasn't something she wanted to have to contemplate again. "And of course not. I have mentioned being busy with cleaning, haven't I?" she countered smoothly.