Combined studies

Victoria, who was sitting at the table, had her eyes glued at the book that was in front of her. But her ears picked up the little conversation between the two persons who had taken place at the hunter's table. Her gaze lifted when Simon stood up from the seat and walked to the table that she was sitting in. 

"Tori, I am heading to that table," Simon chirped like a happy bird with a look of evident mischief in his eyes. 

"I heard," came the dull response from Victoria. Her eyes shifted to look at Melanie and Conner, who were talking about something, and she looked back at Simon, who picked his books. "Isn't it too soon to stir trouble? Or are you keeping a close watch so that I don't snap the human's neck?" she asked him. 

The human girl, who had been sitting in front of them until now in Simon's company, her eyes widened in fear upon hearing the word snap and human's neck. She turned to Simon and asked, "What is Victoria talking about?"