She's quiet until he finishes his peace and while Ray appreciates that, it also, to some degree, makes him a little nervous because he's wondering what she's thinking. Luckily, he doesn't have to wait very long before he gets an answer. It isn't exactly what he'd been expecting, because it implies that she's a lot more okay with this arrangement than Ray was starting to think she might be. That's a bigger relief than she probably knows, coming straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, like that. He certainly doesn't want to be that husband, after all.
So his body language becomes visibly more relaxed hearing that she's just as interested in giving this upcoming marriage a chance and he nods a little when she specifies that she's less interested in his technological empire and more interested in what him owning that means; what she can do to help the world. Ray wants to put Palmer Tech at her fingertips and she's been reaching for it the whole time, without his realizing. Now, he feels that much better about his decision. She was and still is the right choice for him.
"I'm really, really glad to hear that," he says sincerely with a smile. "You have no idea how much of a relief that is to hear," he adds. Having a partner who truly is on the same page with his drive to improve the quality of life of the people in the world he loves so much, starting with the city he loves even more, is all Ray could've asked for.
Her concern with Cisco's involvement is fair enough and Ray knows it's coming from a place of being on the outside and not knowing the whole situation. He can't share it right now, but he makes a mental note to fully explain it someday. "No, they're not really in the business of weapons manufacturing anymore after...the last owner and all that happened there. Cisco is good people. He wasn't working on the project so much as being sort of a consultant to me for the engineering portion of what I'd been trying to do. Actually, working with him sort of set the wheels in motion for me deciding to integrate nanotech into that project at all, which worked out especially well. But yeah, no, the guys at STAR Labs are great. They're here to help their city just as much as I am to help mine. I promise, you'll understand when you meet them."
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So his body language becomes visibly more relaxed hearing that she's just as interested in giving this upcoming marriage a chance and he nods a little when she specifies that she's less interested in his technological empire and more interested in what him owning that means; what she can do to help the world. Ray wants to put Palmer Tech at her fingertips and she's been reaching for it the whole time, without his realizing. Now, he feels that much better about his decision. She was and still is the right choice for him.
"I'm really, really glad to hear that," he says sincerely with a smile. "You have no idea how much of a relief that is to hear," he adds. Having a partner who truly is on the same page with his drive to improve the quality of life of the people in the world he loves so much, starting with the city he loves even more, is all Ray could've asked for.
Her concern with Cisco's involvement is fair enough and Ray knows it's coming from a place of being on the outside and not knowing the whole situation. He can't share it right now, but he makes a mental note to fully explain it someday. "No, they're not really in the business of weapons manufacturing anymore after...the last owner and all that happened there. Cisco is good people. He wasn't working on the project so much as being sort of a consultant to me for the engineering portion of what I'd been trying to do. Actually, working with him sort of set the wheels in motion for me deciding to integrate nanotech into that project at all, which worked out especially well. But yeah, no, the guys at STAR Labs are great. They're here to help their city just as much as I am to help mine. I promise, you'll understand when you meet them."