Aurora smirked at Jesus' comment towards her. Out of that whole group of sour faced Ilvermorny kids, Aurora had to admit he was probably her favorite one. He never seemed like he actually really disliked her. Not the way Valerie did at least. He at least humored her. If he did dislike her that much, he hid it well, which was all she asked for, really. Once she had this scholarship in the bag, she could care less what people thought about her. Even if she DIDN'T win, she'd probably still not care.

Of course, that was all hypothetical. She was definitely going to win, because DUH. It was HER.

She was going to make a sassy retort to him, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Irene appeared! "Oh thank goodness!" she exclaimed, hugging her friend back. Wow, she looked pale. Aurora wrinkled her dark eyebrows and examined her. She personally hadn't thought it was all that bad, yet everyone seemed like they had just awoken from a coma. Had...had they had a more difficult challenge than her? Had she breezed through hers because it had been set up that way? Had she just been humored, and was she about to be eliminated??

She had felt that way after the last challenge too...but she had always thought everyone was just being dramatic. SHE knew they weren't going to be in any real danger, even if they threw a dementor at her. Why worry? Why get upset? That thought had helped her through both of the competitions and she had come out exhausted, but mostly unscathed, especially mentally. It was all a competition, after all, they wouldn't let something terrible REALLY happen to them...

But if Irene was feeling ill, and had suffered a lot through this challenge...maybe it wasn't the other people who were the problem. Maybe it was AURORA.

She didn't have much time to process that, though, because Irene was looking paler than ever, and was slowly slumping down into her lap. Uh oh.

"HELP! SHE'S PASSING OUT!" Aurora exclaimed. She had NEVER seen her friend like this before, and it was far more terrifying than the challenge she had just been through. "EVERYONE BACK UP! GIVE HER ROOM TO BREATHE!" she snapped at people around her. YOU TOO, MADELYN. They needed water, or orange juice, or something like that...weren't you supposed to drink orange juice after you fainted?

There was someone else yelling too. She looked over and noticed some Hogwarts girl, covered in vomit from ANOTHER Hogwarts girl. That Dora chick that she had met that one time in the halls. Her eyes widened and she felt HERSELF getting anxious now. What was going ON!? Why was everyone DYING?!