"That makes more sense." Crouched to best socialize, make eye contact. His friendship and he people he has surrounded himself with would make any bout of bad weather less horrible than it would be normally. Groot has people like Verity that look out for him in his best interest.

"You've got a great group of friends, Verity." Including that tree fellow but not at all limited to. Clint. Hunter. Their boss too.

She's only giving him more reasons to keep his head tilted up to her, to the sky if it means more kisses. "Then I'm so happy to inform you that, to my knowledge, Murdock men keep their hair for many, many years."