Ren took the knife from him, she was unusually gentle with the weapon. Her eyes glistened with wonder as she held the knife carefully with both hands, one curling around each end. Tom was obviously not very good with people, that much was for sure. But in that moment, many things happened to Ren all out once. She, for one, decided she did not want to take any of his amazing technology because she knew she would not appreciate it nearly as much as he did. Now, Tom most likely was unaware of this, but he'd won her over just from such a small gesture. She never planned on voicing this because it was quite a weakness to have, to be won over by someone. Winners had few weaknesses and she knew that Tom would not appreciate this weakness of her's, anyway. At least not now. He was not "friend" material, which was something Ren was thankful for considering friends were another weakness.

She grumbled a barely audible thanks to him and allowed a smile to form upon her face before she tucked the blade away.

The fact that he could defend himself, though, that poked at her. She shook her thoughts away from the knife and followed after him. Her eyes set on the armor, which she figured he was not going to give up, before she watched him go work on whatever it was crazy men like him worked on.

"If you could defend yourself, why didn't you?"

Ren wasn't dumb enough to think he wanted to talk, obviously he was plenty occupied with what he was doing. She, however, liked to talk to people and was determined to get him to talk a little before she inevitably told him she was good on the technology part. Ren wasn't quite sure why this was as it was, but Ren wasn't sure why most things were as they were. They just [i]were[/i]. 

"I mean, it's easier to just defend yourself instead of getting me to do it for payment," As she spoke, she walked among the aisles, carelessly checking each bit of technology in case any of it was interesting enough for her to change her mind. Being stubborn as she was, none of it was, "It just seems smarter to do things on your own, if you can, don't you think?"