Peridot jolts slightly when he speaks-- not a surprising reaction, considering how tense she is-- and blinks owlishly in his direction while she tries to make sense of the question.

"Nyuh-- Urrmmm. Pretty much everything here is weird," she answers after a second. Kind of a lame answer, but it's true? "It would be fascinating to study the lifeforms here if the threat of getting eaten by one of them wasn't such a high risk factor."