Not everyone in Baedal has Benevenuta Crispo's experience when it comes to hit the ground running. They don't all have her ability to pass for an ordinary human; they don't all have her lucratively marketable skills. The picture he paints isn't one she has any trouble grasping readily - she knows herself to be an exception, and not the rule.

(By nature. Her birthright and her responsibility.)

After a moment, “When you find your funding-- I would be very interested in hearing more.” In a professional, give me a job here capacity: “My medical background is in non-profit, I was at a clinic in Paris before this.”

If he gets his good idea off the ground...it's worth having a conversation, she thinks, worthwhile enough to wedge a foot in the door before there's even a door to walk through.