The Watcher, Part Two

The girl gaped as her mouth parted in amazement. She looked around the bright, colorful entryway and soaked in the gentle, melodic trickling of water. There had to be a fountain somewhere close but she couldn't see one yet. The decor spoke to the affluence of the inhabitants as well as to their taste of sleek, crisp, futuristic furnishings, art and style. 

Drinking in every detail, her eyes quickly darted around the room. She soaked in the rich, vivid red accents splashed among the primarily black, gray and white room.. The rug in the center of the room looked particularly plush and expensive. The geometric pattern was extremely sharp, too, a series of overlapping circles and lines in a variety of sizes. Where the circles overlapped, the color shifted. The rug was kind of mesmerizing and she had to work to tear her eyes away from it. 

She jumped and gasped as the someone laid a hand on her shoulder. She had completely forgotten that the man was standing there at all. She turned wide eyes in his direction as she whispered, "You startled me." 

Sardonically the man replied, "Oh, I'm sure before the night's over I'll do much more than that."He paused for dramatic effect and then continued. 

"First, though, we shall talk about the rules." 

 His eyes took on a slightly dark, but bemused, glint as her own locked onto his. Whispering yet again as she took in the glint in his startlingly blue eyes, she inquired, "Rules?"  

The entire situation was surreal. While her eyes remained locked on his, she had already taken in his appearance. The man was of average height but very solid. She had no doubt that he worked out. He looked nearly chiseled out of stone with muscles quite defined, but not grotesquely so. He had no hair but appeared relatively young -- perhaps 30, possibly very early 40s. His most striking feature, though, was definitely his eyes. They were a piercing shade of blue with a swirl of something she couldn't quite define. Flintiness? Darkness? 

She wasn't quite sure. After a pause long enough to make her squirm he affirmed his prior statement. 

"Yes, rules."