She turns back to him and flashes a brilliant smile, her blue eyes shining just for him.

"Well, now you can't say I didn't warn you, can you?" Dejah almost bowls into a pair of wait rats coming down the stairs, and she has to spin in place to not let the armload of books come crashing down. She carefully holds the pancakes out of the way.

"Sorry! So sorry! I wasn't looking! Entirely my fault! Sorry!"

The rats chittered their disapproval and one of them rolled its eyes at Curtis as it went passed them.