Mhmmmmmm.

[His nonverbal response is both thoughtful and laconi, with a side of wry amusement to it. Those things are always as awfully easier said than done, aren't they? He is still annoyed at how little progress he has made at figuring out the mechanic that keeps this 'world' going himself.]

Not facing us head-on might be the only way it can do what it does. Maybe it doesn't even have a real body in the common sense.