Oh. Ari's owl wasn't just sassy. It was also evil. Evil owl. "Chase usually just ignores me and pretends like he doesn't see." Kat said. "But in other cases, he'd try biting me. He's not doing it now because he knows I brought him treats and owls totally dig treats." She could definitely hear Chase wanting for another treat, but she ignored it the way he'd ignore her too.

Anyway, Chase was the least of her problems right now.

"Yeah, it seems weird being in their territory. I've been used to the darkness in our common room and theirs seem so high up." She wondered how it felt like, though, staying in towers rather than down in the dungeons. But she and Ari had been outside their common rooms and, Merlin, were those Eagles and Lions ever tired of all the staircases?