[Claire gives a startled little jump, and then flushes in embarrassment for doing so. She pushes back her hair a little, enough that he can at least see her face-- and the hollow, circular mark on her forehead which, perhaps surprisingly, doesn't look like the ones connected to actual religions-- and stammers,]

Well-- they're not-- I mean, they're kind of awful, aren't they? I mean-- unless you like them. Everyone else seems to.

[She just finds them grotesque, personally, but she doesn't want to offend.]