She waved at him eagerly when he came into view. Gone was the reserved Strigoi movements and back were the more free expressions of being a teenage Dhampir girl. There was a bright smile flashed at him. Her dark brown eyes full of life and happiness. Things she really couldn't display in her immortal prison of a body.
"James!" She closed the difference between them, offering him an affectionate hug. It was good to see him this way. She'd memorized every aspect of his body and face before when she was strigoi, but she couldn't appreciate him completely like that.
Leading him to the blankets, she flopped down and opened the basket, beginning to pus the Russian and American dishes buffet style so he could help himself. There was still a little reservation in Viktoria, but it wasn't so obvious with just James. They had become friends before he knew the dhampir she had been before. It was easier to be around him. It was the new people and those who had known her from the past who made her a little nervous.