"You do?" Pearl's mouth falls open in astonishment. The kindness behind those words, to her, is too deep to be measured in words -- and so her attempt at a response comes out a jumbled, stammered mess.

"That's not... I, ah... y-you're really..."

She trails off for a moment, staring down at her hands. What could she possibly say to someone who finds humanity in her when she herself can barely grasp it? After seeing exactly what she is, and nearly falling victim to it?

"... That's... really nice of you," Pearl concludes with a meek, feeble murmur. Quite possibly the most worthless string of words she could've hoped to produce, but that's what ends up falling from her mouth, and there's little she can do about it after.