It wasn't the first time he'd managed to startle someone since he'd arrived here, by a long shot, but Lacey's reaction was one of the more spectacular ones. Enough so, in fact, that it takes his brain a few seconds to catch up with what she's doing. His first instinct is to reach out to try and steady her before she winds up falling, and he's halfway to doing that when he sees her hand half-lifted in the air in what's clearly an attempt to warn him not to get too close. It does get him to stop, but the look of concern on his face doesn't go away.

"S-sorry. I'd not meant to startle you. Only..." He looked up at the sky, the clouds grey and swollen, threatening yet more rain, and a grimace crossed his face before he looked back down at her. "Look, I know you've no idea who I am, but you'd fallen asleep, and I don't think it's such a good idea to be sleeping out here at the moment. Especially when you're looking a wee bit, erm, flushed."

Not that he was really looking all that much better himself, and he knew it, but he could ignore that for the moment in favor of reaching up and scratching at the side of his neck, a faintly apologetic look replacing the grimace from earlier.

"Ah, no offense."