Odd's bobs? What a strange phrase. What a strange girl. Nicholas's thoughts can't settle on a direction, one part of his mind repeating how did that happen while another went didn't she notice she was naked and another chimed in with the opinion you could just curse. And yet another focusing on the potential injury to his pride here.

"I just wasn't expecting that," he says, slightly indignant. He hadn't been afraid of whatever was going on there! (He had been afraid of whatever was going on there.)

Still, he straightens up and pulls off his jacket. He's tall enough that it should give her some decent coverage, he thinks. He tosses it neatly over the furniture. "Here."