She'll make the connection sooner or later; zhaan could be a little like Yrael. Right now she's holding still. Hers is a world of regeneration technology; she's used to it.

"I thought--" and she *is* slightly steadier in the next breath, emotionally and otherwise. "I thought the beings who--that they'd come here." she might be a while fully convincing herself that they haven't.

Beat. "But something is happening? A telepathic influence, or?..." the basics are sinking in, now. The reasons behind them are what she's seeking.