The boys affected by the water outage were walking along the hallway, conversing between themselves when they spotted Vittorio and Salvatore walking their way.
They quickly stopped walking in honour of their superiors.
"Why are you all loitering?" Vittorio questioned on reaching them.
Elio stepped forward. "Signor–"
"Elio?" Vittorio frowned. "You were affected by the outage too?"
"Sisignor Vittorio."
"And where is Marce?" Salvatore asked.
"He switched wings last week. His room was unaffected."
"Lucky bastard," Salvatore muttered.
Elio smiled because it was the exact same thing he had said.
"So where are you all headed?"
The boys looked at Elio. He felt their collective gazes and turned his head over his shoulders.
"Seriously? I have to do the talking?"
They shrugged. After all, he was the one closest to the superiors.
"Fine," he seethed, and turned back to Vittorio. "We were looking for you actually. Luce wants to know when the pipe issue would be fixed."
