"She --" he started, still disorientated. Aufhocker -- that was the Aufhocker's doing? Hadn't Nicholas been right there? But then the reality of it all, the sight of Teddy and the forest and the memory of their research and the fact he had checked his journal not long before it had happened, had seen Snape mentioning hallucinations --
Scorpius swallowed, suddenly incredibly embarrassed. Pink crept up his cheeks. "Yeah," he mumbled quietly. "Thanks."