No comment on his joke, but he's not that surprised. It had been a weak one. Apparently he's going to need to do some work getting jokes she'll find good. And he's going to need to get better at random spikes of sentiment, because she's leaning on him, trusting him to help her, and he's about to offer something that could make him a little vulnerable.

"Honig." Despite his attempt to make it sound neutral, there's colors of more as he says the word. Tentative affection, for one.