Speaking of unpredictable outcomes, that is not something she recalls ever having heard before. Most of them manage a better appreciation of her true form after interacting with her humanoid body, but she's quite sure none of them would ever prefer it over a face to speak to. Probably because they feel interaction with her structures is somehow less, too much of it occurring outside the scope of their senses and understanding. Rather sad, even to her, when it involves people she feels attached to.

All the more startling and oddly endearing a sentiment, especially coming from him, then, and her eyebrows rise in open surprise. "Why is that?" she asks, not unkindly. But she's had to deal with far too many people being so fascinated by her technology that they would try to take her apart or enslave her.