After having checked in the last dark corner, Violet had to admit that there was nothing in the Common Room. Nothing visible, that is. Just as she was finishing, she heard Aria, still apparently on the staircase, bidding the others goodnight. Violet did not fail to notice that the younger girl had pointedly excluded her from the general farewell. At first Aria's coldness had been amusing, but Violet was becoming more than frustrated with this behavior. She had wracked her brains trying to remember what she might have done to offend the other girl and had come up with nothing. Sure, she and Aria had never been particular friends, but Violet could come up with no valid reason for the other girl to be so snippy to her and she was fed up with such childishness. She was beginning to look forward to the day when she would not have to be living with a bunch of...of children!

Shrugging her shoulders, Violet finally decided to head back to bed. She paused as she walked back through the Commons and spoke seriously to Alfred and Edric. "Um, maybe it's not such a good idea for you two to be staying down here all alone--tonight, at any rate." Then she went on to the staircase and mumbled a sleepy "Goodnight" to them as she headed back to her dorm.