It was quiet. Something, although not unusual, that disconcerted her. She had that problem, from time-to-time, where the silence bore on her ears and drummed and, despite it's misgiving name, was not quiet at all. It was more akin to a hum and then a very, very shrill beep. Typically how Adriana dealt with this was to relocate herself to a busier, louder and brighter place. But she couldn't, since for once she was inside rather than out and for Agrippa's sake, this was her brother's flat. It wasn't supposed to be this...this settled. It was downright domestic and she already shrieked herself near hoarse from his owls, she didn't need to throw up on top of that.
So, naturally, she got up and ungracefully out of bed - yes, her hammock from last time (which was when?) was still strung up, Grayson could be sentimental like that - landing on her hands and knees rather than her face for once. PROGRESS, YES. The fool was fucking frigid, she swore to Merlin, heaven and high hell and then down to Katie and something sounding suspiciously like 'Machiavelli's balls'. Hastily finding her feet, she cocooned herself in on of the blankets and determinedly set about to poke around at as many things as she could without Dumbo's hovering and Damien's wary glare.
It barely took her an hour to become bored. Even less time after that for her to take to the bright idea of opening a window and hanging half-out of it. Adriana bout froze her own balls off and so that idea was written off. Wandering downstairs (leaving that window open, curtains billowing and disrupting any sort of organisation for the piles upon piles of parchment strew bout) and then three and half hours for her to find her way back up the couple flights of stairs, brushes between her fingers in mockery of a Muggle comic she once saw (the guy was burly and angry and, minus the facial hair, facial structure, way of dress, build, height, muscle, basically everything really, reminded her of Dot. He was very very very angry looking is what she meant). The sun barely was making it's ascent and fuck really? really Sun, you were going to do this to me? She groaned and intended to flop dramatically onto the chaise - she ended up on the too low table that was incorrectly dubbed their coffee table and the mess piled haphazardly on it.
It was the best rest in ever.
When she woke up, the sun was in a decidedly much better place and it was just perfect, she concluded, to get her lazy-arse of host up.
One HORRIBLE encounter with Madam later, Adriana was inside of Damien's room, and staring down at the unattractive sight of her brother drooling all over the sheets. She stood there, and stood there...and stood, until she felt pins and needles beginning and so perched herself on a stool that she had to drag back into the room. His face, during all this standing around, had been carefully done-up in exaggerated paint (in the lieu of make-up) of a geisha for shits.
After doing his hands - all of it an anatomical nightmare - in skeletons, she got bored and realised half-way through a bone had partially moved onto her own hand and the sheets. Oh well, it wasn't like they weren't already covered in the slobber of someone and who-knows WHAT else. Something buzzed and she twisted fast enough to blur her vision and propel her past her intended direction in the complete opposite one. Now something else - it glittered and shone and pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny. Huh, that was interesting. She moved to get a closer loo- "AH HOLY SHIT!" - and ended up toppling off backwards. At least it was onto the thing that buzzed, fixed that problem. "WHAT WHAT WHAT??? WHY?"