You're letting me look, showing me those things you've kept hidden for so long from so many people. That's patience.

Then he says that she seems to like it, that she's smiling, and it makes her falter and lose focus for the briefest of moments. Was she smiling? Does she like it? She hadn't thought him capable of teasing, and yet he had, proving her correct in the humanity guess as well.

She refocuses and he gets a nod. Your true self is the light that will save the galaxy, Ben.