"So now you're jumping out at me from ?" "Of course not." He looked affronted. "That was a staircase." Sophie peered around him. It was the side staircase. The staircase. Certainly not anyplace a family member would just to be walking. "Do you often creep down the side staircase?" she asked, crossing her arms. He leaned forward, just close enough to make her slightly ucomfortable, and, although she would never admit it to anyone, barely even herself, slightly excited. "Only when I want to sneak up on someone."