[center][b][u]Carmen[/u][/b][/center]

Carmen sighed in relief when Lily said that she hadn't disturbed her slumber. She wasn't sure how she felt about Lily's response about how she slept, though. On the one hand, her voice and inflections sounded convincing, but the condition of her face and eyes didn't match it. Carmen brushed it off once again as normal for Lily as she had no grounds to base it off of, and didn't give it a second thought.

She turned her attention towards the phoenix, and was about to respond to his lighthearted reply when she saw a familiar girl walking up behind him. Her hand went over her mouth to try to contain her chuckle, and she successfully did so until the point that the girl unceremoniously plastered herself on him. Carmen laughed. [b]"Looks like you've got a friend there,"[/b] she said, flipping her hair because Carmen. [b]"You can come out, you know. I [i]promise[/i] we don't bite,"[/b] she said to the girl, really only half expecting any sort of response.