He watches her with no small amount of wariness, carefully following every movement of her hand as she rests it gently against his arm. People don't touch him, not without being expressly told to do so. They usually keep their distance, too busy cowering in fear of the next words out of his mouth to dare to take any such liberties with him.

In fairness to them, he does usually punish them for it. She's only lucky that he's not inclined to draw unnecessary attention to himself. Yet.

"Suppose I'll have to take your word for it," he replies cautiously. "I'm a little underwhelmed so far."