If Victoire had had the necessary oxygen, she might have wondered how the hell this madman had found this dig site, how he had managed to spend three weeks down here, with her team none the wiser. They'd happened on it only a month ago, and they had all taken Unbreakable Vows not to speak of it with others...
As it was, her thought processes were more along the lines of THIS CANNOT FUCKING BE MY LAST AIR.
Really, this whole being strangled business was just pissing her off. Victoire tried to drive the heel of her boot into his foot, but it lacked the necessary oomph. He was asking things, and it was difficult to focus on his words, as close as they were.
"Gringotts," she choked, wasting precious, precious air with the effort. "with--I'm with Gringotts."
And then he'd loosened his grip on her wrists, and she managed to barrel forward with a desperate burst of energy, breaking free. Her lungs burned at the sweet taste of oxygen, coughing with the sudden rush.
He'd bruised her windpipe, but she didn't need words. Victoire had her wand and she snapped it wordlessly as she turned on heel, incarcerous burning in her thoughts, as massive ropes shot from her wandtip. She snaked them up, catching a leg, his strangling arm, surging around his chest and lashing tight. Her knuckles whitened on her wand.
Every impulse in Victoire's head told her to rip him to shreds. She raised her wand, so tempted, so furious. Chest heaving, weight shifting, she very nearly did it, vision crimson with rage.
"This is a confidential dig site," Victoire rasped, pale eyes burning through his. "Who--who the hell are you?"