Of course she realizes how ridiculous that probably sounds as soon as she's said it. Here she is, sitting on a completely different world she's never been to before, talking to someone from a completely different world than her own most likely, and she's worried that Green might be a little too out there?

"It's kind of a long story." Which doesn't necessarily mean she's not going to tell it, but she figures it'll be better to give him a heads up. "But the uh... abridged version is that I was talking to the big mechanical sentient lion I pilot." Piloted? Who could say for sure?