"Maaaaybe" Aurora said jokingly. Her and her friends all laughed together, before Venus yawned, all her friends yawning along with her.

Rio finally finished his food and leaped down from his chair. He looked back at the list. He let out a sigh of relief and went to bed.

"Well, Imma hit the hay. See ya in the morning," Hummer said, darting out of the dining hall and down the stairs to the dorms.

Venus and her team headed down to their dorms, Midnight and Aurora fell asleep quickly, but Venus had other plans. She carefully felt her way over to Hummer's room, knocking on the door "hey Hummer, I need your help with something" she said, quiet enough not to awaken any others.

Hummer lifted her head, blinked a few times, and stretched. "Sure....*yawn*.... what do you need?"

"well, I may not look it, but I'm level 22." She stated "I need help getting to lake evolution, I want to evolve for the expedition tomorrow, and I want it to be a surprise for my friends, so can I stay in your room for the night, I don't snore or anything, plus I could always put you back to sleep easily" she said, referencing her sleep powder.

Joey has matured a bit~

Joey woke up suddenly. He tiptoed over to the messenger bag, where Tina usually put pokepuffs in, only to pull out a joltik.
"Holy pants!" he shrieked, jumping back away from the electric-type.
Luke grunted a bit in his sleep, but did not wake.
"What're you doing in there?" he asked the tiny bug-type.
"I'm getting some food so I won't get hungry on my journey to Lake Evolution." Joltik said.
"Couldn't you just sneak some?"
"Ah well..." Joltik said, scratching his head nervously. "I would but, that would be stealing."
"You're stealing our food." Joey said flatly.
"What level are you?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yeah!"
"I'm level 25." Joey said.
"Tell you what. You let me have this pokepuff, and I'll take you to Lake Evolution to evolve!" Joltik said.
"Seems legit. I'll go." Joey said.

(Joltik's an NPC)

Hummer pondered this for a moment. "Ok," she said finally. "I'll take you, but we need to be careful. There's this Scolipede and... look, you don't want to get on her bad side, ok?"

"Right, I'll be as good as I can" Venus said, stepping carefully with her vines. "I've always gotten along well with other poison types" she told her.

"Scolipede's not your average Poison type... Come on," Hummer said, hopping into the air. Her wings made that humming sound again in the silence. "Follow the sound of my wings, ok?"