She's glad that he isn't acting higher and mightier than her because he knows what's going on. Brennan is on the level, it seems, and he's being terribly kind to her. She follows him easily, falling into whatever rhythm of step that he chooses to keep.

"I've got nothing but questions," she assures him with a very small, fleeting smile, "and I wouldn't want to bother you with them all." She supposes they do need to pass the time, though...

"But I must know -- what sort of magic could even begin to pull people to another world?"