The sentiment and his shyness are sweet enough to her to make her smile again. She doesn't tend to feel attached to humans very often or quickly, but it isn't difficult to earn her affection either, especially if she's treated with respect and kindness. Which he has done in especially adverse circumstances, so she finds herself caring rather a lot about him.

And it feels like he isn't really used to someone being kind to him, which is just such a shame. "I'm glad for that, too," she assures him and then stands up on her toes to place a kiss on his cheek. Her affection so expressed, she continues, "And you should know that I am not primarily an architectural force to begin with. My nature is wholly rooted in Time."

To illustrate, the solid ceiling above the console dissolves into an expansive view of open, deep space, dotted with stars near and far, a few planets and a bright violet nebula. At first, the image seems to stand still, but then time moves forward rapidly, planets circling their suns, suns circling each other and the nebula slowly dividing and solidifying into new celestial bodies. It's more a depiction of space than of Time, but she knows it's the closest humans can get to understanding it and the two planes are intractably linked anyway.