'<span style="font-style: italic">Ei, väike nõid</span>. I have not.'<br/><br/>He found Seria settled comfortably on the couch when he re-emerged from the bathroom, his appearance rather more polished than it had been when he had first run across her. His eyes followed the direction in which she pointed as she jested, to where his freshly cleaned trousers were now laid over the coffee table by the lounge. They smelt strongly of washing detergent, and he wrinkled his nose in distaste.<br/><br/>'<span style="font-style: italic">Tõepoolest</span>, they are intact. I can not imagine how you refrained,' he mocked, moving around the couch to retrieve the garment. 'Such continence you have displayed,<span style="font-style: italic">väike nõid</span>, that you have not forsaken me to remain naked. Bravo.' He applauded her derisively, the gesture slow as if to emphasize his jeering. Had she not been capable of causing him serious bodily harm, he might have dared drop his towel just to spite her. He did not, however, fancy losing a rather important appendage mandatory in order to declare himself as male, so instead he merely returned her innocent smile and sauntered back in the direction of the bathroom to change.<br/><br/>Once he'd slipped back into his pants he slung the towel back over the rack where he'd found it, and gathered up the bloodied shirt he returned to the den. He made a detour back to the window on his way to the bin, green eyes scanning the foggy streets in search of the squadron. The quadrat he'd offended had vanished, though a lone figure was perched atop a neighboring roof. The others were nowhere in site. Still, Echo thought they would be near; probably finding somewhere secluded to bury themselves before dawn. He left the window then to dump the ruined shirt in the garbage bin by the kitchen counter, and moved back towards the lounges.<br/><br/>'It's Echo, by the way,' he informed the Witch, taking a seat in one of the recliners. 'My name. You never asked it, but it seems proper that I should tell you. I've never much fancied being referred to as<span style="font-style: italic">Vampiir</span>.'