It feels like the world stops at Mr. Stark's words. At first, he isn't sure he heard the man correctly. Five years? But May would've been crushed. He's all she has left. They're all each other have left and she thinks he's, what, been dead for five years?

"I..."

Peter hesitates, not because he doesn't want to answer — although he sort of doesn't — but because he's still trying to process what May must've been feeling and how that's his fault. To buy himself a little time, he takes the older man's hand and pauses thoughtfully.

"We were on Titan. Everybody started turning into dust. ...and I didn't feel very good. And then it was like a passed out. I woke up again and everybody was fighting again," he explains.