Anakin considered the woman for a moment while R2 warbled cheerfully at the woman. Her request was clearly not a question he was instinctively prepared to answer quickly. He knew he wasn’t doing anything wrong, but long experience had taught him to be cautious about curious grown-up strangers when it came to his mechanic creations. He knew she wasn’t Force-sensitive, so she couldn’t accuse him of breaking some aspect of the Code, but that didn’t mean she wholly approved of his activities.
He glanced at R2-D2 as if to consult the droid’s opinion on the matter, but he didn’t say anything. R2 chirped a few times, which Anakin seemed to understand. On Anakin’s part, it seemed to purely be a conversation all in his head. In the end, the boy decided, because R2 seemed to give the woman a pass that she was probably not a threat. The droid hadn’t failed him yet.
“No. You can stay,” he finally said, turning his head to look at her again. He blinked a few times more, his brow furrowing as he tried to work something out. “But… why do you want to stay?”