While there was still obviously magic involved, Tony's expression softened from his skeptical caution to a more curious pout as he considered that his expectation was exacerbating what communication barrier there was. After all, most of Lark's explanation didn't sound terribly magical, and if it was, maybe it was closer to the 'magic' of Asgard, logic just outside of Tony's scope of understanding.

"That all sounds very...stable," he said eventually, after studying her for a beat like he was making some objective calculation of what she was telling him. "Are we talking about...one city? With all of these temples. Or is it that the temples are city-states, and form a nation?"