A soft ding and a quick check of the phone. It's not difficult for Marina to slip past her sleeping roommates, but it still adds to the nervous excitement of a late night rendezvous. There's no shadow sickness necessary to get her skulking about and acting like an idiot where Kyra's concerned. She's been effortlessly under the other girl's spell for some time.

The low light of the girl's common room confirms that it's thankfully empty at this hour, but Marina wouldn't have been above chasing some freshmen off to bed. A more noble minded person - a proper Emperor - would have supported locking Kyra away in a tower until the shadow's effects had run their course. But both girls had flipped their arcane assignments on their heads, and Marina couldn't help but push back at good sense when the temptation was so appealing.

Opening the common room door feels like Christmas morning. But better. So many possibilities.

Finding Kyra indulging in parfum de pup isn't one of the possibilities Marina had imagined. It takes her a moment to recover - something about this unrestrained version of Kyra is completely Charming. "Kiki. Sunny." The latter greeting is considerably flatter. She'd known to expect Sunny, was trying hard to warm up to him for Kyra's sake, and yet he continued to be.. a dog. That Marina still found him wholly repellent was a good thing right now.