She could kick herself, were her stomach not already doing the deed for her.

“Too common. That hat was given to me by a peddler. I’d intended the mages to examine the hideous thing, but it found its way onto my head before I had a chance."

She takes a deep breath – changing bodies is not kind on one’s disposition, and the past few hours have quite literally been her idea of hell. But this specter is a stranger and she has no intention of baring herself further before him.

...aside from the baring she is currently doing.

“I have taken you far from the castle grounds. For that I apologize, Gilesson.”