Claude barely has time to parse through what she's saying about being covered and just registered the part about shades - whatever those are - before she corrects it in a way that makes him even more confused than he already was. He spends a moment looking at her with his book only just opened to the first page in his hand before he raises an eyebrow. "Shade as in... the shade under a tree?"

That makes zero sense and the questioning tone of his voice certainly says so and that he knows it. There's clearly some context he's missing here; the only other thing he can think of is nightshade which still doesn't make sense and, unless Abraxas has some very out there plant life he's yet to encounter, probably wouldn't cause whatever's going on where she has to be covered up to the point of shredding up bedding.

And good manners say he shouldn't ask too much lest it seem like prying, but. It's hard not to when there's something he wants to know. "Is that something that happened where you're from, or did it happen here?"