Effectively, yeah. A very roundabout way of being very direct. Which just entirely seems to sum the pair of them up in several different little ways.

Well she's the closest interesting thing and quite touchable anyway to boot. This body is very much about the tactile in nearly every form, for all its intellectualism and ethereal/ephemeral/effervescent thought processes. He looks down to watch her take his hand and continues watching for a few more moments afterward.

'Bonus points if it's dangerous. And we offend it by accident. Extra bonus points if it's dangerous, inanimate, and we offend it by accident.'

I have the feeling they have quite a bit of mutually beneficial but playful cheating in various places for various reasons.