After
talking to Vala yesterday, Isabel had gone up to her room and settled down with a trashy romance novel. She fell asleep and slept straight the night.
She woke early Saturday morning with a craving for pancakes. There were people sleeping in the fourth floor common room, so dressed in jeans and a heavy sweater she went down the stairs to the 2nd floor common room. There might have been people sleeping but if so, they were all hidden under the mounds of blankets around the room.
Because of that she tried to be quiet as she moved around the kitchen, turning on the coffee pot and mixing up a batch of pancake mix.