She wondered if this was what people felt like when she launched into her own engineering jargon and technobabble: hopelessly adrift, out of their depth, assailed by a swarm of unfamiliar terminology. (That's what you get, Brigitte!!)

But crawling out from under the table and dusting off her knees, she tried to focus right past all the terminology. Honed in on the more relevant detail, though he seemed so nonchalant about it: "What was it like, to junction one of those? What did it feel like?"

Because oh my god she just has to know, now.