"Dunno, mine can't so I haven't had a lot of reason to look into it."

"...hey, question. How do you build your mana?"

"Me personally, or witches in general? Every race has their own way of building charge. Oreads do it through physical proximity to people we're emotionally close to. Neutrals use sleep."

"Buuuuuuullshit."

"I think you are officially cooler than us across the board."

"Sor...ry? I'm not actually sorry, it's nice being cool. How do you generate mana? Probably there is a race that has it worse and it's just that you didn't happen to meet a Lamia right off."

"Effort and suffering."

"Not ideal but definitely better than a Lamia or a Lilin."

"Or a Hannya." 

"Or a Hannya, eugh." 

"Lamia gain mana by digesting creatures they swallowed alive. Lilin gain mana by doing things they consider to be morally wrong. Hannya gain mana by being drunk."

"...okay, those are unfortunate. Though I imagine some people would like the drunk one? I don't personally see the appeal but people do drink on purpose."

"People do drink on purpose but people don't usually become alcoholics on purpose, which is pretty much inevitable for pure Hannya. At least some actual Hannya like it, but, like...they're not the most stable people to be around. Also the Lamia situation is actually worse than Johann implied, they gain mana from the souls of the creatures they digest and most animals don't have souls that are strong enough to count."

"Oh dear. I guess the Kisses are in practice how the more... neighborly... ones get mana? They buy them with whatever else?"

"I don't personally know a lot of Lamias but I imagine so. I suppose if one had a friend with a convenient form of immortality and some kinks something consensual could be worked out..."

"Is... that a real kink?"

"What, vore? It's popular enough that there's, like, a word for it."

"That's just Latin - or, like, an abbreviation of 'omnivore', probably, lots of things are - anyway it doesn't matter as we are not lamias and get mana by doing pushups or embroidery or whatever."

"Is there a gym on campus? - that we could use?"

"Prob...ab...ly? I know there are multiple gyms but I am not much of a gym person personally so I don't know which if any of them need student ID to get in. Lemme check." Pause. "Okay Lisao says there's a gym not that far from here that should be convenient."

"Cool. We wound up doing bodyweight exercises in our rooms half the time for reasons."

"That wouldn't work so well for me, I think I would wind up leaning more on the embroidery part."

"It's good to have a mix of exhausting and annoying so you can switch between them if you run out of materials for your annoying or stamina for your exhausting. I think most adult wizards settle on having a kind of hardcore workout routine and optionally an irritating hobby."

"Makes sense, even if it never occurred to me to seek out a hobby for being irritating before."

"My plan for if I ran out of surfaces on my clothes to embroider was to take up lacemaking, which I expect I would find incredibly loathsome."