Only two of them were there at first, the others were surprised by the attacker when they arrived in individually.

Fine, none of them are fired, but she's very irritated. They should scream if they're attacked. People getting attacked in Elysium without getting instant backup damages her rep. The cafeteria patrol are within earshot.

Saffron seems done with them. Pelape and Eefa can go get their belated meal and then retreat to their room.

Eefa relaxes back to her pre-wolf sighting level of paranoia pretty quicky.

That's good.

When Pelape goes to clean Eefa using her power she'll notice her shirt has some new holes and nearby specks of dried blood.

"When you get hurt by something little, does it come out okay on its own while you're healing, or does it ever get stuck under your skin?"

"Nothing stays under my skin," Eefa replies, giving the answer she judges least likely to result in Pelape trying to place things under her skin.

"Okay, that's good. Are there bits of shrapnel anywhere that someone might step on them and get hurt?"

"I dunno."

"What if we go check all the places you went after the gun exploded, to make sure?"

"Okay."

So Pelape follows her checking for bits of bloodied shrapnel.

There do not appear to be any.

That's good.

She... has a lot of questions about 'wolves' but it doesn't seem like the time.

Back to work, she guesses.

Well, Eefa certainly isn't volunteering anything.

She's such a quiet kid and Pelape doesn't know if she's just a quiet kid or if Pelape's failing at looking after her in some way which has cost her the opportunity to be fully trusted.

Dishes dishes dishes.

Eefa can help a bit as normal.

Laundry laundry laundry.

And eventually bed time bed time bed time.

It's a couple of weeks later that Pelape reseasons. This is obvious before she wakes up because as she warned she attempts to cuddle Eefa in her sleep.

Eefa wakes up and tries to escape from Pelape's grasp the first time this happens.

"Arcball. Grouse?"