"I really like you."

"I like you too, I think I'm tremendously fortunate to have encountered you."

"You seemed like you were already doing alright for yourself without me?"

"I mean, it was fine, but my second and third choices for who to hit up about springtime were pretty distant and also I like the being deputy mayor idea a lot more than being a full time laundress and dishwasher."

"You're really great at mayoring type things. And also at hooking up type things, you are really great at those too."

"Thank you!"

Lucien shadows her at a distance for a generally uneventful shift and then Pelape can take over on her own.

Eefa is normally content to wander around the market nearby Pelape, but halfway through the fourth day of Pelape deputy mayoring Eefa tenses up and hurries to stick much closer to her protector.

"- something wrong, kiddo?"

"Wolves."

"...how many?"

She looks around, counting them on her fingers till she gets to five. 

"...I'm going to carry you, and we're going to make our way over to Laithan's, same as if we ran into anything else I couldn't handle, and tell him about it, okay?"

Nod.

She picks her route to head past the people Laithan told her to call for if she needed muscle. If she needs it emergently she'll call them. The trouble is that before they're actually attacked, she doesn't expect those people to believe her. "What do the wolves look like?"

"One of them has red hair and a gun and one of them had no hair and-" Eefa describes each in turn, focusing on their hair and weaponry. 

Pelape keeps an eye out, and places Eefa so she can look behind them over her shoulder, and beats feet faster than she would have dared before the touch telekinesis, especially given that she's carrying a kid.

At least three people who match the descriptions Eefa provided appear to be following her.

Next time she passes a muscle guy on her chosen route: "Maybe don't look right now but there's some guys following me and I think they're bad news. I count three right now but I think they've got a couple more friends."

"-you're Laithan's substitute, right? What are they armed with?"

"Kiddo said she saw -" List.

"You just want guards or should we grab them?"

"They haven't done anything yet but the last time I was this worried about somebody they tied up the entire kitchen staff of Elysium and tried to shoot me, so... I want them in a position where if you grab them there won't be any credible call to let them loose again."

"That'll depend on who they're friends with."