There was shame in him for what he'd done to save himself. The people he'd fed on to heal the damage from the fall, and to give himself the energy to climb back out. Aidan averted his eyes when she asked, he really didn't want to tell her. Of course he couldn't lie to her, though. His hope was that if he skirted the issue, maybe she wouldn't bring it up. Maybe he wouldn't have to admit to what had happened.
Part of him, a small part currently because of his joy at seeing Evey again, wanted to pull away before he answered her. Wanted to make sure she wasn't touching him so that if any inkling got through to her, she wouldn't somehow be tainted by his actions. Since that portion of himself was so tiny at the moment, he didn't pull back. He kept her in his arms, kept touching her face, feeling her cheekbone under his thumb at first and then the soft skin by her ear.
He still couldn't look at her, though.
"I climbed out. It wasn't easy. I'm okay now." He assured her this last part because her concern was obvious. Logic might have dictated to anybody on the outside of this conversation that he was fine, but he would have asked her the same if it had been her that had fallen. "As soon as I reached the top of the fissure... I don't know. I was here. I fell on the ground and felt grass under my hands, I heard children laughing and playing... and no hole. How did you get here?"
Giselle was forgotten for the moment. Her strange connection with Evey forgotten, too. There was time to sort everything out later. Right now, well. Right now they had to catch up.