"Sorry, it's just my natural inclination," Jon said, flustered and embarrassed. He didn't want to make her uncomfortable but clearly he had since she had pushed back against him calling her lady.

"I don't know what titles you hold, if any, so it felt better to just...be safe. What would you prefer that I call you?"

Jon had never been entirely comfortable with women and certainly not beautiful women. He'd always been the bastard, the boy in the shadows, and then he'd been part of the Night's Watch and sworn to have no woman. Now he found himself in a new place entirely.