"Me either but..."

"No obituary. No other obvious hits either, I'm getting some kind of historical article about someone in Washington County, Pennsylvania."

"That's really weird."

"While we all meditate on this mystery, is there somewhere we could... sit. And food we could eat."

"Sitting down and food are trivial to accomplish; if you need longer-term accommodations then that's going to be slightly more complicated." She pulls a golden wand with a rose quartz crystal set into the tip out of thin air; a moment later and the wand is a broomstick with a much larger quartz crystal set into one end. She sets it into place in midair behind her and sits back sidesaddle on it. 

"- oh that's very cool."

"We are not carrying... currency... but are in theory ready to begin work as productive adult wizards? Though I think normally recently graduated adult wizards take, like, a gap year."

"I mean, my roommates and I can probably put you up for a while, but we would have to actually talk to them first. Things in Arcadia mostly don't run on human currency anyway."

"Is there witch currency? Wizards normally work on mundie money or mana depending."

"Witch currency is mana." She pulls a small copper coin out of her sleeve. "Witch Kisses, coins containing quantized amounts of mana. You can make them out of pure mana and pull mana out of them when you need it."

"- that's very cool."

"Is it lossy?"

"Nope. The main bottleneck is that if you don't have special materials or relics for it, it takes six minutes to make one Witch Kiss."

"How much mana is that - also, was there going to be food, I had a soda for breakfast and dinner last night and that's all and the adrenaline comedown is a thing -"

"There will be food when we get back to the dorms, I don't have any on me. One Witch Kiss is about a tenth of the mana needed to brew a rank-one potion, or a fortieth of what's needed inscribe a rank-one rune, or a fifth of the cost of a rank-one hex."

"Very neat and tidy sounding, your system."

"Are we meant to ride the broomstick?"

"No, sorry." The broomstick starts moving smoothly in the direction the crystal is pointed. "It's just that there are enough springs that the ground is uneven enough I'd rather ride than walk."

Well then, they'll set off on foot. "Are springs also a witch thing or does a lot of water bubble up out of the ground?"

"Well, uh...actually this is a pocket dimension that changes the terrain every cycle, and this cycle somebody picked a hot springs theme. Uh, a cycle is a three-month academic period."

"I realize we have now said this to you several times, but that's very cool."

"Yeah, our school is nowhere near that nice."

"I sort of picked that up from the graduation you need teams to survive, honestly."

"Graduation all by itself kills fully a third of the kids who die at our school, the rest of it is less of a horrorshow. Or, like, at least a much more spread-out horrorshow."

"...How...many deaths are there total."