Eden was pretty fond of Ashley, too. Not that their courage was working very well for either of them.

The first year wanted to crawl into the dirt at Aguilar's next question - so, of course, her stubbornness kicked in and she sat up even straighter. They could keep testing her. That's fine. She would keep on truckin', as her brother would say, and that was that.

And then Ashley, bless her, spoke. And Eden wanted so badly to laugh. Just deserve to be dead - really fantastic stuff. Eden decided to go ahead and hop on this train, and so she raised her hand and spoke, eyes making very accusatory eye contact at Aguilar even though her tone remained robot-flat like Ash's. "I think there is value in Ashley's anti-natalist approach." She gave herself a little pat on the back for that Ravenclaw vocabulary word. "Maybe we should all just die."