SPOILER!!: Aurora and Skylar.
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Aurora Chae 
NOW the crowd was starting to form. Aurora grinned and waved at each person who sat down. She was going to introduce herself to each one who sat down, but she didn't want to keep repeating herself. She was sure she'd be introduced in time, along with the other mopey kids who were acting as though staying here was a death sentence. She could feel Valerie's eyes on her and just smiled. It was so amusing how incredibly annoyed she got by her. She supposed one could argue that she got joy out of poking the bear...and who was she kidding? Of course she did!
And Aurora was sitting in a den of angry bears at the moment.
Stopping just short of an eyeroll when Valerie FINALLY decided to open her mouth, she grinned at the Hogwarts students. "She's joking, of COURSE it was worth our time," she told them all matter of factly. Of course, she knew she wasn't joking, but there was no need to be RUDE. She could be rude to Aurora all she liked - she was used to it by now - but no need to be snarky around total strangers who were opening their home to them! "Come on guys, smile! This is a once in a life time experience!" she encouraged her fellow students.
She expected nothing but deadpan faces and eye rolls in return. Poke poke poke.
She grinned and raised her goblet, smirking at Jesus as he toasted HER. I know you're being sarcastic but I don't care, she wanted to say, but instead she just winked at him. Her mere presence seemed to be enough to drive them bonkers, so she would just stick with that. It did nothing but make her look better, after all.
She was so preoccupied in her thoughts she didn't even notice the ghost materialize just a few feet away from her.
She paused for a moment to crane her neck and look around for Irene. OOOH there she was, over at the fun table! With all the music! She would have to go over there in a moment and join her.
One of the newcomers caught her eye and Aurora cocked an eyebrow at her (Felicity). She tapped her chin and then rested it on her palm. "You look familiar. Did you go to Ilvermorny?" she asked, glancing at the Slytherin affiliation the girl was now wearing. If she did go there...she certainly didn't now. But Aurora was positive she HAD seen her face before today.
She then turned to the two girls who had introduced themselves as having the same last names (the Botros ladies). She smiled and scooted a bit closer to them - they seemed nice. Well, everyone who wasn't from HER school seemed nice at this time. "Same last name huh? Sisters? Cousins?" she asked in genuine interest, twirling her hair around her finger as she spoke.
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PhoenixRising Skylar heard the Bloody Baron talking to someone else about not being excited to meet foreign students and she had to admit that perhaps the Baron hadn't noticed her. Or she just assimilated well with the not wanting to associate with the foreign students. Seriously, the Great Hall was crowded enough with just Hogwarts students there. Hosting another school, well, Skylar had a feeling she was going to be skipping a lot of meals this year. Unless she got there early. Or they were mandated feasts.
Distractedly, the fourth year did manage to take her gaze off Brent and where his gaze was when someone familiar slipped opposite her. Her new dormmate. "Liss," Skylar smiled, grateful to see a familiar face. Well, the Botros girls were obviously familiar, as was Katy, and some others, but they were actually attempting conversations with their guests. Huh, wait a second, hadn't Felicity transferred from America? Why was she not more excited to see her former classmates? UNLESS, perhaps she had other reasons for transferring...
"Do you like recognize some of the guests here?" Sky asked curiously, figuring it was safe to start there. They could always chat more about what she really thought of her former school later, in the safety of their dormitory.
She'd been recognised. Felicity's eye rose from her goblet, locking onto Aurora's. The former-Thunderbird put her drink down before offering the Ilvermorny student a nod. "Yeah, I just transferred." Which was obvious from the current green and silver attire, and the lack of wide eyed curiosity that had left her after a week in the Castle. "I'm Felicity. It's Aurora, right?" Not that Flick knew the girl well, obviously, but what with her introducing herself around her memory was jogged slightly.
A smile finally curved the corner of her mouth as Skylar greeted her with the nickname. Which, by the way, she adored: for all her homesickness, and alienation, it really did make her feel that Hogwarts wasn't
all bad, and that at least a few people weren't annoyed by her presence. She wondered what it would have been like to be one of the students just visiting, although honestly she doubted she would have joined the trip. Felicity had caught sight of the boy Skylar had been looking at before she'd taken her dorm mates attention: Kane's brother, who looked super comfortable to be surrounded by old schoolmates.
Fiddling with the ring on her right hand, Felicity nodded. "Uh... Some of them," she admitted, her eyes roving around the people nearest to them before landing back on Skylar. "It's weird... Seeing them here? Makes me miss it even more."