He doesn't mean anything by it--because his first instinct on anything is to either Get Angry or Make A Joke, and in this case, Make A Joke won out. But he also doesn't realize that his joke about tentacle porn hurt. Kind of busy not dying to notice if she doesn't say anything, and she's probably also too busy not dying to say anything.

"Only for shielding us--here!" Church takes a swing with his sword to more thoroughly slice, and whatever bits of kraken might come off, ew ew ew ew ew he's jabbing with his sword to deposit back into the sea, because no??? No thank you no.

"Can't fire any cool pain bolts from it, it's really fucking unfortunate, I wish I could do it." He looks toward the Rifters in the water--but also to the rift, flexing his hand. "Can you hold us steady? I'm gonna try closing it from here. Hopefully without dying. Really not looking forward to death."