Challenge: Vaults
Word Count: 100
- the gleam of gold and silver and bronze, stacks of galleons and sickles knuts glowing slightly in the torchlight. Severus gaped. His mother's family had been wealthy, but she'd given it all up to marry Tobias Snape. The vault should only have contained what he'd saved. What was going on?
He turned to the goblin. “What - “
“Miss Nazareth Prince, of the Cairo Governate, died two months ago. Her entire estate went to 'Eileen Prince or her heirs at law,'” she said. “Congratulations, Mr. Prince.”
Severus sank to his knees. So much for retiring to Upper Flagley.