[...smooth, Red.

Usually she doesn't appreciate things like that, but he's so clearly bewildered that she can't help but laugh. and maybe look him up and down once or twice, but who's paying attention to that sort of thing

She forgets for a second why she was concerned.]

Hello.

[She's got her own collection of scars -- the most notable one being the familiar symbol scarred over just above her hipbone, but there's a few more either from accidents or from her own experiments.]