As it was her second experience communicating in runes, she recovers a little more quickly than Jim, although she seems rather dazed by this new information. "Wow," she agrees with a smile, a word that carries its meaning across the translation barrier without trouble.

Remembering that barrier, she picks up her notebook and pencil. It feels cumbersome to return to a human language, after what they have shared, but she tries her best. Did that help? It didn't give him a name for his rune, or tell him how he got it, but at least now he knows what it means. That's a step forward. And better that he could learn that from a friend than the only other person she knows who has a rune inside his brain.