"Beans?" she echoes, peering at him for a long, perplexed moment, cycling through all the possible things that could mean. "Be-beings? Is that what you mean?" Holy shit that's adorable. She barely (very barely) manages not to say so.

"Well yeah, there are advantages to being bigger, I suppose," she says, reining herself in some. "But I bet you have a lot of things, or... at least experiences that I'd never get to have, normally."

Imagine how useful this would be in a laboratory context. She can't stop imagining it.