She grinned, glad her joke had gone over well. Of course, he didn't know what she'd been; with some people, the joke would have fallen completely flat. As it was, she got a dark sort of humor from it.
She grinned, one side higher than the other, more of a smirk than anything, as he complimented her. "You have been gone a long time, then. Monument has been here for a while now." Even she knew her way around, and that was with being in and out a lot. "Come on, it's this way." She tilted her head and started in the right direction.