Lucia Walsh-Rhys is many things. Impetuous, stupidly heroic, generous to the point where anyone else wouldn't survive it. From New York.
Busting down El's door to get at this soul-eater.
Lucia Walsh-Rhys is many things. Impetuous, stupidly heroic, generous to the point where anyone else wouldn't survive it. From New York.
Busting down El's door to get at this soul-eater.
"Oh, that would make sense too. In that case I have nothing to add to 'project kill the mals'."
"Fair enough. --It'll probably make a lot of noise when it happens, do you think it would be weird to just go back to doing homework?"
"Yep."
It takes a little more than half an hour before the sharp cry of a shrike could be heard, echoing through the maintenance shaft, and then out into the hallway. Then there;s a loud zapping noise, and a thud, and one senior says to another, loud enough to be audible inside the shop, "What'd you do that for?"
The response isn't clear, but the following noises make a fairly coherent picture of someone hoisting the shrike's corpse through the shaft, and it falling a very long way down.
Lucia gestures for Liu and Aadhya to retreat to the farthest part of the shop. In only a few moments, there is a rumbling and a growling, both increasing in volume, and then the noise of a lot of yankers being activated at the same time.
And then Lucia slams through the doors of the shop barely slowly enough not to damage them.
El goes with her. She is also very good at destroying things, with Lucia taking point and supplying fuel.
Lucia will provide lots of fuel.
Usually she prefers to kill things with her sword. Usually there are fewer mals requiring her to dispatch them as efficiently as possible, and one sword is not efficient for this many mals. But even mostly using spells instead of her pre-enchanted blade, she is still accumulating mana at quite a clip.
Eventually the two of them fight their way to the maintenance hatch, and manage to slam it shut, and Lucia gets the tip of her sword under one edge to peel it off before anything can break through.
"Well, that was exciting."
"Yeah."
She rolls it up and tucks it under her arm.
"Next time, though, we'll take time to prep, and do it at a time that's good for us, not just awkwardly do our homework right up 'till."
"Also that! I do also like that. Do you want to wait until dinner, then dramatically stalk into the cafeteria and lay down some ultimatums."
"Well, okay, probably, yes, but, 'would you like to lay down some ultimatums with me' sounds better than 'would you like to play Worse Cop to my Bad Cop.'"
"I am happy to stand ominously near you. Let's go tell Aadhya and Liu that the conquering hero has, though."
"Yeah."
They start trudging back towards the shop.
"El? I don't say this enough. I'm really, really glad you're on my team."
She laughs and shoulder-bumps her affectionately.
They get back to the shop.
"Hi guys, everything's dead!" Lucia waves. "We're going to let them stew in how mals aren't flooding the school until dinner and then dramatically call them out."
"I was considering glowing and floating, but not putting my feet on a table, let alone anyone else's."
"Wow. Okay, glow and float as long as you're sure you can manage anyone taking potshots at you when you denounce them."
"With mals. If someone shoots you in the back what's stopping them from getting you like that?"