For some reason, the cook isn't present in the kitchen at the moment.

...are there other staffpeople?

Not at the moment! There is, however, a hand covering her mouth from someone behind her, and a gun pressed to her forehead.

That gun is jammed. That gun is in contact with her and she's decided that it's jammed. That will - work, right, it will - it has to -

- and just as importantly all the bones in that hand are going to break, right now -

"Fuck!"

He fires the gun, which, as it turns out, is too far away from Pelape to jam properly.

She notices that jamming the gun did not make a noise, and notices his finger closing on the trigger, and it occurs to her to also bend the barrel as far as it'll go before it's not touching her any more, up to point at the ceiling.

Well, in that case it explodes, sending shrapnel everywhere, including at Pelape.

As soon as it touches her it meets her TTK and it stops but she still screams! Is Eefa close enough to throw herself on top of her??

Eefa is nowhere to be seen actually!

Good for her probably! Pelape fell onto the floor at some point!

Their attacker staggers back, his hand and stomach bleeding profusely.

"HELP," Pelape screams at the top of her lungs, "HELP, GUARDS, SAFFRON -"

The attacker staggers towards the kitchen knives.

An Elysium guard bursts in, sees Pelape on the ground without a weapon and the wolf still standing and going for the knives, and shoots the wolf in the chest.

The wolf collapses, dead.

Leaving Pelape to give a shaky report of the situation to Saffron in her office. (Eefa "must have gotten away" and Pelape does not know where to.)

Eefa shows up soon after Pelape gives her report.

"There you are - are you okay, did you get hurt at all -" Does she want a hug, she probably doesn't but Pelape'll open her arms in case.

"Only for a little bit."

Eefa is confused what Pelape is doing with her arms like that.

Yeah, figures, Pelape would kind of like a hug but Eefa doesn't have to. "All better now?" She can ask once they're not talking to Saffron any more if she means that she heals fast or that she bumped her arm and it stopped hurting after a minute.

Nod.

"Anyway, it was the same guy Eefa had a bad feeling about before, and I'd asked the staff not to let him into the kitchen but when we went in there the place was empty, where is everyone -"

Good question, where is everyone.

In a pantry. They are very thoroughly bound and gagged, but alive.

Saffron lets them all go and demands to know how they all got that way without anyone raising an alarm.