His appreciation reaches deep as he listens and absorbs every word she says like a sponge. He couldn't say why exactly he feels so content to talk about stuff like this with them, even as near strangers. But their answer seems to answer that question for him.

"Right, so you came up against that before?"

All of her suggestions are ones that he'll keep in mind with others and, for better or worse, has already put Illumination in a category of their own. One that he's so warmed up to already that he'd be easy enough to lead down any merry path despite his usual misgivings of most people.

"I... I do want to have sex and it definitely doesn't need to come with the whole romance thing, far from it. Just don't want to get caught up in somebody else's bullshit either."