No sound came from her and perhaps that was why Nemo didn't startle so badly. It was unnerving enough to see a pretty girl with her mouth open, in obvious stress, and nothing coming out. She wasn't skuttling away from him, so he knelt tentatively to a crouch beside her.
"Miss?" he finally asked. "Are you hurt?"
He felt incredibly stupid for asking, but it was better than asking if she was okay, wasn't it? What else would he ask someone who, for all intents and purposes, could have just washed up on the beach?