"I'd ask if you were also hungry, but I know that grumpy is often your default emotion," she teases around the 'gray something', too starved to fret over manners. It's also the hunger that stopped her from being a brat and pulling Damien down with said food. That and some semblance of respect or liking...or something. While the leg doesn't bother Melinoë, it seems to bother him, and he did just do her a favor.