"Well, why not twelve?"

"At least in part because twelve is a rather large number when talking about rooms?"

Maya just blinks and shakes her head a bit.

"This is a rather large house, we had to put something in it."

Jess snorts. "Okay, so, is that an offer for Maya to stay here?"

"Yes," Juniper and—

—Willow say at the same time.

"Okay, well, um, iiif Maya's okay with that? I mean, mum probably wouldn't handle it too great anyway, I don't know how she's gonna react, but yeah." She shrugs.

"I'm pretty sure I'm okay with that!" she says, not seeming too sad about her mum. "If you guys honestly don't mind."

"Twelve."

"Rooms."

"Yes, but like, presumably it comes with the offer of food, and like, I'm still in the house, and that might be annoying or something so I'm just– checking that it's absolutely okay."

Theo looks kinda like he wants to laugh at this. A little bit.

"Yes, it's okay, Mum would never forgive us if we didn't offer."

"Thanks," says Maya. "Is there, uh, are there any, like, house rules I need to know or something?"

"Don't destroy things, if you want to eat anything gluten-free it's gonna come from your pocket money—they might make an exception for you -, no loud noises after nine pee em, erm... I think that may be it."

"My pocket money?" she asks. "Oh, what, you mean Jess's money? Wow, I only just realised that I literally have no money."

"She was just repeating Mum's words verbatim, she has pocket money rules but you would probably have special guest rules applied to you."

Maya nods. "Oh right, well, thanks! Those all sound like reasonable rules."

"Okay," says Theo. "Um, what else was there – just magic stuff?"

"Just magic stuff?" Sadde and—

—Willow say simultaneously in bafflement.

"… As in, we don't have things that are not 'magic stuff' left to cover, not, 'just' magic stuff as in just magic stuff."

Both of them giggle.

"Yes, it's probably just magic stuff."