Ilda doesn't miss the admiring tone in Pepper's voice, but she starts to feel it, too. Because, seven billion? And Tony the armor guy rescues a lot of that? That's quite a feat. Now she wants to know what he really looks like...

But her expression then turns somber, matching the other girl's own, both at the thought of people being taken from their worlds without their consent to fight a war that's not their own, and the fact that great evils really do exist in the... worlds. She purses her lips together, frowning. "But, don't you think..." she starts to say, then shakes her head. If she doesn't say it out loud, it's not real, not gonna happen. "Nevermind."

She changes the subject. "Hey, do you like that hat? I wanna buy it for you, since we're friends now and all!" It's a quick switch, but her cheer doesn't sound forced in any way.