It feels like the bass is vibrating in his skull as Shane presses his face harder into his pillow.
It's not even a song anymore, it's just noise, relentless, grating noise. It's been going on for hours. Voices and laughter, smashing of bottles, doors slamming, shouting.
Rozonov's still in the elevator, one hand braced against the door, watching him.
“Knock next time,” he says. “Might be more fun.”
The doors slide shut before Shane can respond.
#hollanov
Shane doesn’t wait.
The doors barely open before he’s stumbling back, away from Rozonov.
“Turn it down,” he says, over his shoulder, clipped and final. “Or *I’ll* file a complaint.”
“Hollander.”
Shane stops, just long enough to turn his head.
It takes Ilya longer than he would have liked to admit, to notice that Shane Hollander used to have piercings.
He spots the ones in his ears first, small, closed-over holes that he only really clocks because he’s already there, licking the shell of his ear. He pauses.