"Of course I'd like her - you chose her, didn't you?"

He blinks and shakes his head - and while he may not be easily surprised by any stretch of the imagination, he is still merely human.

"The star?" he inquires, and then, for clarification. "Shining bit of metallic rock hovering far above the earth - well, not so much hovering since it (she then?) fell, but you understand. That star?"