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[iwasalevel6]

There is a booth that is occupied solely by a stack of tissues and bowls of soup. Somewhere behind the mountain of fluff and ceramics is a Tony looking as if he's been mauled by a virus. Thankfully, it's not a weaponized virus. There is a high probability that the Tony is asleep.

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[duck_bill]

There is also an astronomically low probability that a baby dinosaur has scaled the dizzy heights of his body and is now perched on his shoulder.

Nevertheless, that has, in fact, happened.

[iwasalevel6]

Tony is about to sneeze when he notices a weight pressing down on his body. Before he can completely register that something has been climbing up him, he catches sight of a baby dinosaur on his shoulder.

W. T. F.

"Um...?"

[duck_bill]

Dino beam.

"Hello!"

[iwasalevel6]

He gives a nervous, confused smile. "Hey. How did you get up here?"

[duck_bill]

"I climbded," she tells him, surprised he needs to ask.

[iwasalevel6]

"You must be proud of yourself. Although, admittedly, I'm not so hard to climb as, say, Mount Everest."

[duck_bill]

"What is that?" she asks politely.

[iwasalevel6]

"It's a, ah, a mountain. One of the biggest in my world."

[duck_bill]

"Oh."

She looks down, regarding him solemnly. "No, you are not, nope."

[iwasalevel6]

He laughs.

"No. A mountain is an inanimate object. A huge chunk of land that soars up into the sky. I'm just a regular old human."

[duck_bill]

She ponders his use of the word 'old' for a moment.

"Are you a grown-up human?" she asks.

[iwasalevel6]

He nods. "Thirty-five years old. Some people would consider that ancient."

Although he's a long ways off from retirement.

[duck_bill]

Ducky blinks.

"...Oh."

Evidently she had thought he was also a child.

...Don't be insulted, Tony?

[iwasalevel6]

As society deems that anyone above the age of 24 is old, Tony being mistaken for a child would be far from insulting. Headbreaky, but not insulting at all.

"How old did you think I was?"

[duck_bill]

"I do not know!" she waves a 'hand'.

"I would not say you are old."

She searches for a description. "They- they are... bigger."

[iwasalevel6]

"Are you comparing me to a dinosaur?"

Figuratively speaking, Tony is not that old. Literally speaking, Tony is not that tall. Taking in account his PB's actual height, Tony might not be all that taller than his 5'6" mun.