The curl of a smile at the edge of his lips briefly reappeared, as he tilted his head thoughtfully at her. "I'd come and visit you for your efforts though," he said honestly. "And you'd have to do a pretty spectacular job at falling to be stuck in there for too long." Even his broken ribs last term hadn't taken that long to fix. And some things were just worth getting injured for. Though...whether he was one of them, well...she had him there. After Vesper, he suspected he wasn't.

The thought of her first getting him up, and then pushing him down, all the staircases tugged at that starting of a smile a little more. "If you did...it'd be the least you could do to stay in the hospital wing with me afterwards." He'd been talking one measly short staircase...she was talking the whole schools-worth, including several moving ones knowing Lex.

Before all this, he'd nailed his first trick on the moving staircase. How had he lost the motivation to do more? Sigh.

"Something like that," he said, biting his lip. "I'm not great at being cooped up. I'm guessing that shut door isn't great for you either?" He pulled a face at it as he spoke. "Too little space...too many people?"