As she usually does, yes.

She spends some time watching Ellyn, before gently slipping out of bed, so she can get dressed, apply her paint, and then go find breakfast (and ideally some form of caffeine for Ellyn).

Her wanderings lead her to a communal dining hall, where several of the other Houses are already sitting. Skeletal servitors wait in attendance to bring out food and drink from an unseen kitchen.

Ooo - she goes to chat up the skeletons first, of course (how good is their natural language processing, actually - she really shouldn't get distracted - ), and make clear her desire to see their options for caffeinated beverages.

The servitors' natural language processing is... uncannily good, actually. They don't talk back because, you know, bones, but she can get a tray with some hot teas, a coffee, and one dark-colored cold drink with bubbles in it that proves to be very very very sweet if she takes a sip of it.

Oh she is absolutely taking notes on this ('this' being the natural language processing; she'll leave notes on the varieties of caffeinated beverage to Ellyn). (Relatedly, can they write if given pencil and flimsy?)

They don't show any inclination to.

Unfortunate, that. 

She takes the tray, adds some bread to it, then takes both back to their rooms for Ellyn. 

Who is just waking up, looking for where her cavalier went.

"I found the kitchens, my atramentous sweet." She proffers the tray.

She takes one of the teas. "I hope I'm not expected to drink all of these."

"I wanted to get you a selection to try." She'll claim the dark fizzy drink for herself - she somehow doubts Ellyn will like it. 

"Incapable of getting out of bed without my tea, am I?"

"Can't a cav spoil her necromancer?"

"For the first morning on the First, I suppose I can allow it."

"The actual opening ceremony was far too bland."

"Fair enough." She tugs Gideon closer for a kiss.

Kisses!

Ellyn drinks her tea and eats her bread and attends to her morning ablutions.

And then they should go find Teacher.

(She can ambush the other Houses at breakfast another time.)

"Lead the way."

Thanks to their explorations of the previous night, they have a pretty good idea of where to go to find him.

They track him down to an office type room, and after some ebullient pleasantries, Ellyn inquires about the hatch. Teacher grins happily and pulls a key out of his desk drawer and presents it to her. Ellyn in turn passes it to Gideon, as the keeper of the keyring.

She threads it on.

"I also wanted to ask - what's the best way down to the ocean?"

"The ocean?" He frowns. "It is dangerous, yes, quite dangerous."

"I'm a good swimmer, luckily."

"It is not the water, it is what lives in the water. There is an empty pool we could fill instead," he suggests.