Sophea stood up in response to the footsteps that were closing in on her. She looked toward Kirkka and almost immediately laughed, only having caught it at the last moment and swallowing it back into her belly. Looking beneath the powder that covered Kirkka, Sophea was able to recognize that it was indeed the resident groundskeeper. They had never met, but she was keen on doing at least a bit of research of the various staff members of the Academy.
With mild haste, Sophea approached Kirkka while she called out to her, "Are you alright? What happened?". Judging from the long sigh, it was pretty clear that the answer to the first question would not be "yes", and from the same sigh came a curiosity that needed to be quenched.
As she neared Kirkka, her ears perked up to the sound of water splashing against the ground. Sophea turned her head to catch the source of the sound and found that it was coming from a rather imposing. purple-haired woman. She turned back to Kirkka. "Does she happen to be uh, a pupil of yours?" Being fairly new to the Academy, Sophea was oblivious to the fact that Mira was actually just a student. A fourth-year, sure, but still just a student.