[It takes a moment until she realized what happened and a rare look of confusion had made it's was to her face. The voice of her companion made her snap out of it, and she turned to see the surprised expression on his face.

How embarrassing, to show such a moment of weakness. She usually kept things that made her show emotions like these well-hidden, so to have it been shown so openly... that really was not like her at all.]

My apologies. I did not mean to startle you.