"I slept pretty well actually, no need to apologize," he tried to assure her, reaching out to give her shoulder a gentle squeeze. "No harm done, really."
Niran let his hand slide down along her arm, feeling a little awkward and an apology on the tip of his tongue for having touched her. He swallowed it down, though, offering her a little half-smile instead as he reached up to finger comb his hair a bit and push it back behind his ears.
It was their first morning as a couple and somehow despite his past experiences he felt entirely out of his element waking up next to a woman now. That woman was his wife and he wanted nothing more than to leave her with good impressions. It left the nobleman more tense than ever and suddenly wondering with a rather troubled look working its way onto his face how in the world his siblings had managed to navigate such a thing and come out on the other side in wedded bliss.
That did nothing to help his neck, a spike of pain and a small grimace for it reminding him he needed to relax. "Would you like a drink, Lina?" he blurted out, already kicking himself for his lack of poise. "Just, I'm going to get water so...if you wanted some too?"
