It is, indeed, a little too long of a stare. Maine watches Carolina, wondering what's going through her head. Future stuff? He remembers his earlier thought with Wash: wondering where he was in that future, and what he was doing. Did he fuck off to the other side of the universe to fight another war? Would that lessen Carolina's trust in him…?

But then she says she trusts him, and he decides to take her at her word. Whatever future stuff might be, Carolina saying she trusts him is good enough for him.

His eyebrows rise at the thought of combining powers. "Fire and ice?" he asks, already imagining it.