Even in the instance that she'd participated in the trial without any other help besides the Warden's, he's sure that she was awesome. He could tell that she was when it was the two of them cooperating.

"Makes sense. Some specific transitive properties of mental connection holding over between whatever you're trying to do. He's definitely smarter about this kind of thing than I am but I can see the through-line." There's a fondness to the wry smile in return over Pal's careful precautions, able to pretty easily imagine this being important to him. "If nothing else it should enable you to talk face to face later when there's not all of this," he gestures to the walls to indicate the ship as a whole, "going on."

The offer gets a shake of the head. "Don't worry about me. I'm chill wherever and you were here first."