Natalie could feel his grin before she saw it, and she sighed softly as she rolled herself up to a sitting position. At least she didn't look as dead this way. "Yeah, I'm fine," she answered with a slightly sheepish smile. "It looked worse than it was. Only my ego's bruised." It wasn't as if it hadn't happened before. Natalie was gradually making her way through the harder pathways, but this one was a pain in her ass, which, of course, only made her work that much harder to try and finish it.