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Eclair, while knowing Espresso and Latte since college, was lucky enough not to experience one of Espresso's "breakthrough" moments. He didn't even know it was a thing until 5 minutes ago. Latte and him had been staying at the school later to finish grading some papers, the whole time Lotte was being on edge and constantly checking her watch. Finally at exactly 9:37 eclair had built up enough courage to just ask what was wrong. And instead of replying like a normal person Latte had led him to Espresso's personal research room. The wooden door shut tight but with a mysterious brown liquid oozing from the bottom, eclair hoped it was coffee. He turned to her with a curious eye.
Latte had let out a sigh and started explaining. "Ok so every once in a while, I would say like once a year, espresso goes through this "breakthrough" moment. He'll lock himself up in his house or dorm and then just spend however long studying and researching new coffee magic" "Oh that doesn't sound too bad, why all the fuss then?" Latte had pursed her lips "Ok well,so it starts with just the normal drinking coffee but soon after it morphs into him using spells to keep himself awake and you know what happens when you… y'know" Eclair sure did know, well it wasn't illegal nor taboo to practice mental alterations spells on yourself It generally wasn't advised to perform intense spells like that constantly, it could lead to permanent mental issues.
"How long has he been in there?" "...A week" "A WEEK?" Eclair had stared at her in shock "Why would you let him do this for a week?" Latte huffed "Okay look the ministry of magic said that it probably wasn't too bad and he does get a good lot of research in for coffee magic but after day 5 mark he kind-of goes off the deep end. I was going to get Almond to do it but I think he's at the train station getting Walnut and Roquefort, so I don't have anyone else to go in and I'm too scared to go in myself." Eclair had just looked at her, still trying to process exactly what was going on. Looking back on it here, He didn't remember seeing him at all for the past week. Eclair had thought it was just because of their schedules to the lineup or that Espresso was just quick to get back to their room. Now he had realized it was a lot worse, he looked back at the wooden door before taking a breath and asking Latte- "Okay what do I need to do?" "Go in his room and find all the papers you can about coffee magic and then find his coffee machine and mugs and break them, also if you hear him say "test subject" forget everything and run. Just run."
Eclair had braced himself before knocking on the wooden door. He turned his head and noticed latte running down the hall before turning the corner. She put her hand out and gave a thumbs up to him, she was supporting him but she sure wasn't helping him. He then heard a loud "Come in" from inside the room. He took one last breath of air before turning the handle and going in.