Nathan was confused '[i]why did she think i had recently gone through that kind of procedure?[/i]' he wondered '[i]was it because of something I said? If so, then what?[/i]' Nathan wracked his brain, searching through every memory he could remember that had Alice in it. Yet he couldn't find anything that should have led her to believe he had just gone through something like that. Unwilling to waste anymore time on that line of thought, Nathan simply abandoned it. "Um...it's okay?" he was a little unsure how to respond, since her strange question had caught him off guard