[she takes a reflexive step back, but only with one foot; she holds her ground otherwise. She's still holding her plate with both hands, so the three claw-ended mechanical tentacles sticking out from the back of her robes close in around her slightly instead, in case she needs to defend herself. She's still jumpy around aliens, even bratty ones.]
[what Helix might notice as he's very rudely studying her: the single-lensed left "eye" looks like half of a pair of fancy infra-red night vision goggles, while the more complex right resembles several microscope lenses. The right side is also newer-looking, with something engraved in unintelligibly ornate (despite Helix's communicator's best efforts) script along the decorative strip of bronze. What's visible of the rest of her head under her hood is also covered in metal gadgetry, including her ears; it kind of looks like she's got headphone cups over them, but nope, those aren't headphones.]
...Excuse me? I'm not overfond of being insulted and then stared at like a piece of strange archaeotech.