Had Marlena been in greater possession of her senses she might have managed to reply along the same lines, but her brain was too frazzled to focus on anything other than the extraordinary way her heart continued to jump in her chest. She wanted to kiss Begonia again, there was no question about that, but the clattering of footsteps somewhere near by held her back.

“We should go back to the common room,” she said, eyes flicking down towards B’s lips and wishing, not for the first time, that they were the only inhabitants of their dormitory.

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MJ: still raising the graphics bar as of 2022