She lifted her hands rather quickly in something of a mock surrender and shook her head quickly. "No, no, no! I feel enough tension and not happy feelings off the rest of the people here in the academy. It'd tear me up if you started feeling that way, too."

Then her expression softened, "The point is that I think I feel happy, which is very out of the ordinary for me. If I think I am, then I must be, and that's good enough for me."