Wait, what? She'd just been wondering if this whole 'claiming' thing was a distinctly Asgardian viewpoint, and then-- what?

"What?" she said, somewhat unintelligently and with a hint of 'really?' in her tone. Was he really asking her that? He probably had about three seconds before the shock that someone would ask her something so personal and impossible wore off.

And there was that additional shock at Thor's tone his... interest. This was. What the heck was this?