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Feliks gave Katya an incredulous look, making a ‘what?’ gesture with cigarette in hand. How absorbed in that tapestry was she that she hadn’t heard him come in? He wasn’t exactly the most graceful or stealthy of walkers. Maybe she was hard of hearing, but whatever the reason, Feliks didn’t appreciate the tone. 

He opened his mouth to retort, but his sarcastic quip died in his throat when he got a proper look at Katya. Or, well, Katya and the tapestry; for standing there next to the likeness of the Grand Duchess Katerina, all shock-blonde hair and wide azure eyes, even in that potato sack of an outfit Katya was a spitting image of long-dead Russian royalty. 

He stared up the stairs at her for probably a little too long, finally closing his mouth when he brought his cigarette back to it. The gears in his head were turning again, but this time he didn’t halt them; something about seeing that the resemblance he’d perceived at first wasn’t a figment of his imagination lit a spark in his head. 

Descending a few steps, Feliks' stare seemed a little more intense than before. Katya raised an eyebrow as she came to a halt, placing her hands on her hips as she gave him her own stare. [color=FFE4B5]“Why are you looking at me like that?”[/color] She asked him.

Katya’s words yanked Feliks out of his reverie, the man blinking rapidly up at her as he came back to his senses. [color=8FA1B4]“Sorry, I was looking at the tapestry,”[/color] he apologized, quickly finishing off his cigarette and flicking it away before ascending the steps. He made his way up with some difficulty, using the handrail (thankfully not too unstable) as support as he went, though his eyes were still locked on the tapestry at the top. He passed Katya on the stairs as he went, coming to a halt just in front of the tapestry before looking back down to her. 

[color=8FA1B4]“I hear this was made shortly before the siege,”[/color] he commented, seemingly out of the blue before looking back at the tapestry, [color=8FA1B4]“Makes you wonder what they might have looked like if they had the chance to grow up, doesn’t it?”[/color]