He managed to hold it together through the rest of the muggles' story, and kept his reactions to the occasional glance at Greengrass until they left, saying they'd be back at dawn. That was a little earlier than Cash was usually a person, but he didn't expect to get much sleep tonight - they had a whole supposedly-haunted manor to explore, and maybe they'd get lucky and it was cursed - and he could always go back to sleep when he got back to London, and before practice.

"I mean, not at first," Cash admitted with a grin. He tugged the bottle of wine out of his bag. "But once I realized that I shouldn't have, a little. Not like you asking me about Hogwarts classes, though, Merlin."

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