Ah! In a way, it was stasis- [That's right, she'd just assumed that everyone was familiar enough with technology to understand things like 'stasis' or 'sleep chambers' but she should know by now that this isn't the case.]

My people have technology that can... [She struggles for the words, waving her hands a little,] Freeze people. For a period of time. So while I have technically been alive for ten-thousand years it was as if someone had just paused me for a time.