If Marian seemed nervous when they first met, her reaction to the implication that Quill herself isn't human is not great, jerking back to put another couple meters between the two of them.

Normally, she's be quite interested in the fact that someone has even an inkling of what she's talking about, but she's still very, very new to the situation here in Hadriel, and her personal experiences with non-human intelligence has not been great. On the other hand, Quill still looks a lot closer to human than even the entities' best attempts.

"How about you tell me just what you are first," she counters with a query of her own.