Aoba may not really have needed those apologies, but he feels a bit better with them all the same, to get rid of the awkwardness that he'd suddenly created between them.

"Obviously," he grumbles softly. Does he look like an alien?! ... Well, opinions are divided on the subject - but he certainly doesn't look like an Ileovoth! It's kind of a shame, really. Those markings are really pretty.

And when Luxaela brings them up again, that's the perfect excuse to stare at them a little, clearly. "You're... still bright." That is definitely a normal thing to say to someone, shhh.

With the excuse to watch, and the temptation to do a lot more, Aoba doesn't leave it at that. "... Do they get warm?" Do they feel different from regular skin at all? He's curious in a way that is still mostly innocent, though perhaps not much longer.