[Sharktrs] Tuition Fees (Witch Hat Atelier)

A young witch apprentice knocks on her teacher's door after dark, clutching her bag and her nerves, because tuition at the atelier is paid in a very different currency. Her patient master coaxes her into his bed with promises of gentleness and teasing praise for his sensitive, talented pupil, while her jealousy over the students who will come after her and the fear of being abandoned like her family spill out in tears beneath him. What begins as a transaction slowly bares her heart, closing on a quiet moment of lessons at his desk where the tuition fees feel like an excuse neither wants to say aloud.