"So with practice comes experience, then?" Seemed fairly straightforward enough... After all, the more 'conventional' abilities required practice, so it made sense for telepathy to work the same way.

And Mal would rather not find out what those ways are, so he'll be keeping those thoughts to himself, if they come up at all.

Once he realized exactly what it was that Jean was doing, Mal's eyebrows just about shot off his face. He wasn't very high off the ground, but just the idea of being lifted off the ground by someone's mind was astonishing. "You've pretty effectively left me with no options. Don't think I'll be threatenin' you much, not that I planned on doin' that," he said, managing to smile, after getting over the initial shock.