[She stares at him for a long moment, her mouth open slightly and her eyes wide. To say that she is surprised is an understatement in its truest form. Not that she had given it much thought, but it seems like all adults these days treat that sort of thing as if it might as well be a hobby. Many fail to attach any sort of responsibility or emotion to it, and while she has very little experience to go off of from the few movies she's seen or the books she read at a young age, she is well aware of how some of the soldiers under her command treated sex.
If he thinks such an admission will change her opinion of him, he is right. Cornelia held him in a high enough esteem before, but he has earned a little more of her respect. Her shoulders relax a little and then her eyes quickly find something off in the distance to look at. For some reason, his confession makes her feel a little more comfortable and she finds herself declining her body back down into the grass, her gaze returning to the twinkling lights above them.]
I suppose that it will come as no surprise that I have never been with a man.