Not very long. How long before she admitted to noticing... ah now that was another question entirely.

"I'd be more surprised if we were. Thinking of putting up some warding spells to keep this ours though." Once she, you know, learned any warding spells. Small details.

"Not much to tell," she said with a shrug. "Doing my art, going to classes occasionally when I remember they exist. Exploring. You?" Asking him to elaborate on himself as a way to side step further questions about herself? Yes, yes she was. She wasn't about to let him know she'd actually been going to classes more than occasionally, that she'd been hunting for places to sleep that weren't the dorm, and spending as much time studying as sleeping when she found them.

She eyed the strawberries then grabbed a bite of meat instead. Perhaps she could delay the strawberries so much he'd get tired and leave, and she could have them to herself, to eat alone.

Perhaps she'd even sleep up here tonight. It wasn't too cold for that, yet.