"I do not, in fact, understand the thought process whereby this was a sufficiently worrying thought that you needed to consult your best local equivalent of a Keeper, but it's okay that I don't understand that - I don't expect to understand everything for a fair while - and you don't need to explain it in any more detail, if you'd rather do other things with our time.  I express clear acceptance and affordance for you to suddenly need to go check with Keepers while talking to the alien, whether it was yourself you were trying to protect by doing that, or me."

"I don't know whether my own statement there makes any psychological sense to you, by the way, as something that a person would say in my position, but it's a sincere speech-act for whatever that's worth."

"I do not, in fact, understand the thought process whereby this was a sufficiently worrying thought that you needed to consult your best local equivalent of a Keeper, but it's okay that I don't understand that - I don't expect to understand everything for a fair while - and you don't need to explain it in any more detail, if you'd rather do other things with our time.  I express clear acceptance and affordance for you to suddenly need to go check with Keepers while talking to the alien, whether it was yourself you were trying to protect by doing that, or me."

"I don't know whether my own statement there makes any psychological sense to you, as something that a person would naturally say in my position, but it's a sincere speech-act for whatever that's worth."