She'd even brought a bribe, in the form of fast food, because really, where else was she supposed to go? (Okay, one of the common rooms would suffice, but that was no fun at all!) Nina beamed at him and if some of that was because she'd startled him well, yes, that had been the point.

"I have been churlishly exiled from my domicile, which has been made palatal," she said, in the tones of direst doom, though given that her smile was going nowhere, it could be inferred that she did not actually mind. "Starry lights abound!!!!!!!! A feast is laid out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Elegant cushions dot the landscape and are ripe for romance!!!!!!! I fled before the princess-to-be arrived and now, I come here, to beg prettily for a place to rest my weary feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina offered him the bag of Mooby's.