He doesn't move to look down at Vanessza Bernát/Mélisande Girard because not moving at all seems like a wise decision — for the moment. As she says, air embolisms aren't fool-proof, and not even that quick when they do work, but he'd prefer to avoid it altogether. Not least because air embolism. In his sometimes complex scheme of priorities, however, Vanessza is a person of extreme interest, someone he wishes very pressingly to talk to, and not to attack. He just wishes the talk were happening several minutes from now with him not on a ladder with a needle pressed to his thigh.

"Fair," Jason says, his voice echoing slightly due to his head being inside a crawlspace. He does not sound unduly stressed. "Okay, here it is: someone suggested you could be useful to me and I was gonna just take a look around but I got carried away. In retrospect, this was not necessary and I should've left like twenty minutes ago."

Left unsaid yet strongly implied: but you have so many things???