He looked at her and snickered. “Right, because this public domain becomes your personal domain whenever you decide to plop down, eh?” Bending back down and laying on the floor, Viktor stuck his hand carefully under the couch and began feeling for anything at all: pieces of food, paper, gum, and something thing and shiny. His phone. Pulling it to him and catching pieces of food under his fingernails, Viktor picked up his phone and stood up, facing the new stranger. “Phone,” he said, waving it in the air. “The greatest facet of life.” He brushed off various crumbs and pieces of carpet then shoved it in his back pocket. “I’m sorry for intruding on your pow wow.”
“You did not just say ‘pow wow’.” She crossed her arms over her chest, an amused smile tugging on the corner of her lip as she tilted her head to study him. Her eyes flickered over his body first before sliding her gaze up to phone and travelling towards his eyes. “And damn straight you’re intruding. How did you get in here, anyway?” Since the incident a couple of months back, she had kept everything on lock. Twice. Bearing in mind the fact that she couldn’t do that to this room in particular, she had been extra careful with her key placement and slept with one eye open in case someone tried to burst in.
