Even if they hadn't left right away, though, they still would certainly have had all day. Despite Vitali's words, it wasn't like they were in any real sort of a rush. Perhaps he was just used to living that way.<br/><br/>Still, he wasn't actually rushing her at all. What surprised him the most anyway was that wristwatch.<br/><br/>Had she just described it as old? That genuinely surprised him even further, considering the fact that such technology wasn't something that was so easily disposed of here in the Soviet Union. Requisitioning a wristwatch or a pocketwatch wasn't easy.<br/><br/>While they may have sometimes been sold in state run department stores, most people could only reliably ever get them by requiring them somehow for their jobs.<br/><br/>Eventually he focused on what she was saying about him visiting London. While he had imagined it as being exotic before and mentioned the music and movies, he knew very well that there was more to it than a vibrant media.<br/><br/>Over time Vitali decided on something internally and shook his head.<br/><br/>"While I face racism here, I do not really wish to go to the West. Drug use, flippant sexual behavior...the west is a decadent place."<br/><br/>It might have sounded as though he was towing a party line, but Vitali was no believer in political communism. Rather, he had come to accept that the indulgence that was present in the cultural upheavals in western society was something that he never would have been able to handle.<br/><br/>Coming from the Soviet Union it would have been hard enough, but he had been raised by one of the smaller ethnic minorities of the USSR that lived far from even the Russian population centers. It was an entirely different world from him, and perhaps one that he didn't want.<br/><br/>Standing there for a time, he started to move again. Silently he had hoped that she hadn't move too far apart from him culturally.<br/><br/>That would have been a big disaster for him personally. It would also have been a disaster when it came to her trying to convince him that she wasn't up to anything and trying to get information too.