"Oh. Okay." It sounds reasonable enough to her. She is also not an engineer, but there has to be a reason other than 'Hey it looks cool this way'. Right?

After he takes his seat she takes the one next to it. Comfy, but everything seems set up for someone much much taller... Ooh, computers. It's an effort to pull her attention away from them to listen to him. "Well, anyone can pilot until there's something you might hit," she jokes.

"I don't want to make the tour take too long, but I should warn you, I am going to have so many questions about these computers later. But I promise not to take them apart to satisfy my curiosity.."