"Apparently so," Helen agrees, glancing at the shoulder she had fallen asleep on, "considering where I was at the time."

Not that she doesn't enjoy Nikola's company, but the fact that she fell asleep with someone else in the room and on someone else besides means that her body had literally given up on her. Rarely has she been that exhausted around another. Even more rarely has she done it somewhere other than at her desk.

"All the same... Did you have a good night?" Her eyes move towards the object in his hands. "Don't tell me you were contemplating that all night."

She wouldn't be surprised, but she had hoped he would have waited for her.