"What the fuck."

"That's what I said!!! He has not been super forthcoming about what the fuck."

"Do witches not have the thing where it's easy to make ridiculous amounts of mundie money by doing magic in the background of a normal-looking business? We can enchant mundie moissanite fine."

"This is mundie moissanite, twenty kilos is a lot."

"Yeah, just, I'm not sure why you'd pay for it in Kisses when it can be got for dollars, the only thing wizards pay mana for on the outside with a mundie economy to piggyback on is wizard labor."

"It is not in fact completely trivial to make mundane money because you have to worry about the masquerade, and I was not in fact planning to pay in Kisses but the asking price was listed in that denomination for reasons of numerical convenience and then Johann was like 'well I have that much money in Kisses' and now I'm distracted by that because his last word on the subject of how fine or not-fine it was was that nobody but him was at risk and he wasn't at less risk if he didn't spend the money."

"I agree that's concerning."

Melody: Eliza you've been pretty quiet since this dropped, did you know what the fuck? 

Eliza: yes

Melody: Are you going to share with the class?

Eliza: no

Lisao: I vote we stage an intervention

Eliza: no!!!

Melody: good plan

Eliza: fuck

"I'm headed back to the room to demand answers in person. Backup would be nice, whatever's going on Eliza's in on it." 

"I'm in." 

"I'm a little worried Aadhya will freak out whenever she wakes up so we should be there."

"Sorry for dragging you guys into it." 

"You've been extremely hospitable! And I'm curious where he got all that mana now."

Lisao is not nearly as cheerful on the walk back to the dorms but the sky is still extremely convincing and there are still flowers and so on. 

Skyyyyy flowerrrrrs

When they get back to the dorm Johann is sitting in the common area in his wheelchair with his head in his hands. 

And Eliza is standing with her hands on his shoulders glowering vaguely at Melody, who's sitting opposite them on the couch with her arms folded. 

Team Chat:

Bella: So we should like, hover outside the door where Aadhya's at, intercept her if she has a nightmare and comes out spells blazing, and otherwise just hang back and listen.

Caio: Agree

Bella: I hope the guy isn't in with the witch mob or something

"We care about you. And we're not just going to let this go without an explanation." 

He sighs and lowers his hands, raising his head and looking away. 

"We would have told you eventually. Probably." 

"The money...I inherited it."

"You said your grandfather had nothing to do with it." 

"He doesn't. It's from a more distant ancestor, on the other side of the family." 

"You have witch blood on both sides and still grew up ignorant?" 

"My father's family has been burying our ancestor in a hole and pretending there's no connection for generations."