[He blinks dumbly at her, too far into his own head to respond with any kind of eloquence.]
Euphie... [Nathan is scared. It's not the usual fear that he'll accidentally hurt her (although that's far from gone); it's a fear that he's too fucked up to do any of this like a normal person. It's not something that he wants to talk about, not now.] Can I just hold you for a while?