[...She's not shocked, at the very least. If anything, her look goes...pensive, for a time. Not turning away--she wouldn't disrespect Elda like that--but...thinking about that, and processing it.

...eventually, her free hand gently touches Elda's, and her smile seems softer.]

I know your view on my kind is not the most positive. If anything, I expected you to jump out and kill me one of those times, out of hatred. To think that I am the first among these to achieve something like that...

[It's said with the same solemnness that she had expressed earlier.]

...I appreciate this, Elda.