[If you were an academic selling out to industry, because, say, all your government funding had been cut, StarkTech had always been a good option. So it wasn't that she wasn't interested. Just habitually cautious.]
Before I... What do you already know about me, Mr. Stark? Or the other me?
[There were plenty of reasons someone might be interested in her if they knew her full body of work, and she ought to make it clear right off the bat which of them were off the table. And if they weren't familiar, they probably deserved some sort of incomplete warning. 'Miss Ross' might have kept her hands clean, somehow. Who knows.]
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Before I... What do you already know about me, Mr. Stark? Or the other me?
[There were plenty of reasons someone might be interested in her if they knew her full body of work, and she ought to make it clear right off the bat which of them were off the table. And if they weren't familiar, they probably deserved some sort of incomplete warning. 'Miss Ross' might have kept her hands clean, somehow. Who knows.]