A Club.

[Ariel Logan Callahan]

"Hm?" Ariel asked, bringing his foot back to the sidewalk. Then he realized what Markise meant, paused, then nodded as he brought it over his head. He almost put his hand to Markise's back, but remembered that they were going back into the wizarding world, and he didn't care to take the chance of being seen, so he shoved his arms and hands away and looked across the street. "Can we go?"

[Markise Sterling]

"Yes," Markise said. He missed the near-constant contact he'd been getting from Ariel all morning, but there was nothing to be done about it. They were going back to be straight again, which meant that Markise was keeping his hood up until he was in bed with the curtains closed.

He sighed again when they reached the dark interior of the tavern. There was a warm fire here, low light and little sound, other than the occasional low scrape of a chair or clink of a goblet. Markise wanted desperately to just stop and refuse to go on. He wasn't even sure that Brindle's martial arts instructor would be in his shop this early to return them to Hogwarts.

[Ariel Logan Callahan]

"I'd say let's stop, but I don't have any money with me," Ariel said, though it felt very odd to say it when he had a pocketful of muggle money. He wouldn't have any wizarding money until he went to Gringotts. Once again he tried to figure out how many galleons the money would convert to, and how much he had lost with their purchases.

[Markise Sterling]

"Mmhm," Markise hummed absently. He looked longingly around the tavern a moment more, then turned to look back at Ariel. "Are you going to exchange that Muggle money?" he asked. He needed to sleep, and now, looking at Ariel, he could tell that Ariel needed it too. Had he been up all night? A flash of something tore through his mind, the bed beneath him moving, and sounds... Markise blinked and looked away, trying to remember. It was foggy though, and he couldn't make anything out. Had it been a dream?

[Ariel Logan Callahan]

"I can, or we can just go back to school, whatever you want." Ariel didn't really care, he just wanted to sit and not do anything for a while again. He would love to have just went back to school, but if he went ahead and did the exchange, then that was just one less thing to worry about. And he really needed one less thing to worry about.

[Markise Sterling]

Markise dragged his mind away from whatever it was he'd dreamed or remembered to listen to Ariel. He didn't know why he was being given the decision, why Ariel was being so nice to him today. He didn't want to jinx it though. He was loving it enough to put aside any uncomfortable questions to enjoy it while it lasted. "I want to know how much it is," he said at last. Was it really as much as he thought it was?

[Ariel Logan Callahan]

Ariel nodded absently, "Then let's go to Gringotts." He was very interested in finding out, and it was enough to pull his mind away from sleep for the extra hour or two that it would take to go to Gringotts, exchange the money, and get back to school. He glanced around and then headed for the door.

[Markise Sterling]

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