Adam smiled a bit at her words, grateful she was not an entirely unknown quantity in this uncomfortable situation. The initial danger having passed, he felt now the thick, heady ebbing of adrenaline, leaving in its wake a kind of dreamy contemplation.
"Lily," he repeated, committing the name to memory. There might come a time when he would be able to repay her for the favor she had done him, and he resolved to take that chance the first moment it came; he had few enough friends in the building, and it was always good to add another to the fold. It did not pass his notice that he felt oddly at ease in her presence, not just because she had so quickly flown to his rescue. There was something in her bearing that beckoned to him, a familiar quality he had experienced in the past but had never been able to place.
"I think I remember you from the power outage," he said. "Sorry I haven't managed a better introduction since then. Working nights tends to limit opportunities for things like that."