He let her down, giving her a new cursory scan to confirm that yes, that does seem to have taken the edge off for her. Knock Out doesn't rise back to standing just yet, simply content to watch.

"You're welcome," he answered benignly, but in response to her question, he adopted that look of honest perplexity which has come up before even in their short time together, the one that said she was doing something unfathomably human and he had no frame of reference for understanding it.

"No?" He seemed unsure in the answer, but only in the sense that he wasn't sure why he needed to clarify. "It's not good for mecha to stay overclocked, it's hard on the system. It seemed reasonable to assume the same of humans. Why would helping fix that make things—?"