Context, Nerida fall for Silja but silja just kinda 'eh' at first because of the nature of her work and how her species is. She just thought he like her because she make him feel good and maybe he's just a lonely man or maybe it's just because she accidentally 'charm' him.

Fast-forward to this image, Silja starting to reciprocate her feeling back to him. So she want to be honest and she want to start over with him again. This time showing him who she truly is. Nerida is having mixed feeling as it force him to also recontextualize the nature of his love for Silja, but he agree to try again, this time figuring out his love and spend time with the 'real silja'.