Val couldn't pull off a full-throated sinister laugh yet, so she worked with what she had.

"Hey, if I had a problem with that..." She'd be acting exactly the same and then ratting him out after he left, not that she was going to call attention to that possibility.

Val shrugged. "Playing by the rules never gets anything done. Unless somebody left a loophole, of course." She giggled into her work again, recalling of some of Uncle Doom's more egregious letter-of-the-law shenanigans.