If she wasn't so stubborn, she would cast him out for being so difficult. But as things were, his difficulty only steeled her resolve. Besides, she could make something out of that response of his. She answers it with a laugh and pays his glare no mind at all.

"Now you're playing along!" There's clear amusement in her tone. "At last. You're a difficult one to get a read on, and maybe I'll never get it all, but this is what I want. Bit by bit, getting you figured out and learning who you are."

At his response, though, there's a clear emotion on her face that could be... Annoyance? But really it's a mixture of things as her thoughts race through how she should answer him. "Something you've been looking forward to, I assume?"