This part of the city is not especially quiet, especially during the middle of the day... but Vincent lives on the sixth floor of an old building with boarded-up windows, so the sounds are more of an amalgam of echoes and white noise by the time any of it makes it into the room.

Like waves on a beach. Live there long enough, and you won't even notice anymore.

The two of them sleep peacefully and uneventfully in this metaphorical ocean, until suddenly brought back to waking by a gruff voice, "--What the fuck."

If Phalanx can wake up that quickly, they'll also feel a shift in the bed next to them as Robin gets excited. "Vince...! You'll never believe what I found..."