She moves past it, with a mild shake of her head. No harm done; now he knows. So, back to what he's saying;

"Shielding sounds more like something from my world. That might be something I can study."

Though it's bound to operate on different principles entirely, she'll at least learn something through the comparison. Jasnah is not an emotional woman, but focusing hard on this problem helps a little with the acute sense of agoraphobia the description suddenly brings. She betrays herself by closing her eyes tight, for just a heartbeat. But giving in to panic will certainly only make the situation worse.

"You were- do people talk about it in terms of being 'up?' Up here, before you arrived on the station?"