[he wonders if she has some kind of magic, then. he's picked up on the idea that she might be more than she's saying, after all, and magic seems fantastical enough to him to fit that bill. add in the fact that she's managed to get plants to grow where Shinra has ruined everything, and well -- yeah, maybe she's magic]

[color him a little jealous, for all that he's staggeringly human]

Me? [a beat. hm, what's interesting about him that doesn't tip his hand too much?] I'm pretty handy with computers, for as little as that means, here. [and that's killing him, too] What I can do -- well. It's almost magic.