Oh her first thought was rather accurate technically.

Spicer let out a heavy sigh and slumped back against the wall.

"You sure ya don' want a novel? Cause that question." he joked, again halfhearted.

"Short version, if I don't have my mental dampeners I can't keep myself in check.... If those mental dampeners are taken away... I can get volatile. So that coupled with me being made to believe my team had been killed by the AI that controls the ship... well, you saw the results. I don' gotta get into those details."