"You-- he asked to kiss you?" She's not sure what she had been starting to say but now she slaps her hand over her mouth, apologetic expression on her face. "Sorry. I didn't mean to hear-- I'm sorry, but he did?"

Nina isn't sure why that surprises her so much or gives her such a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach. The Darkling-- Aleksander was a man at the end of the day. Surely even he has urges that... She shakes her head, clearing all of those thoughts from her mind. This was like when she was lying awake in bed, unable to sleep, realizing that the existence of Hanne meant that Jarl Brum had to have reproduced in order for that to happen.