"Oh... right," she says, trying not to visibly freak out. Demonstrating for the senator?! WHAT senator? Why is this happening to her. What the fuck is a goddamn chevron.

"Right, but... my, uh, my specialty has been in - etheric transmutaion, I mean, I've never actually used... one of those," she says, gesturing vaguely and uncomfortably at the, what is it, the gate. That information sort of supplies itself on its own. "If I engineered your solution it would have been in a very different context, wouldn't it?"

This with only the slightest edge of annoyance. She does not need his tone, thank you, not when she's been hustled right out of her life without so much as a nevermind.