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.
"Good question! I think so? Like, mals generally won't attack a mal that's bigger and scarier than them, but a smaller mal will absolutely scavenge off a bigger mal's corpse."
"It is possible a honeytrap with not-mine blood would be more effective, but I definitely want to do a honeytrap even if it's with my blood and my blood wouldn't work as well, and I wasn't going to volunteer someone else's blood without consulting them."
"Goo I can do. --Actually, if we're outsourcing stuff, I'm not actually the best alchemist there is, maybe we should bring someone better at it in to brew a whole bunch and, you know, also have it on hand for if El or I get hurt during a run."
"There is that. --Aadhya, you're friendly with lots of people, is there someone you can recommend--"
"I mostly know people in our year, and we'd be looking for a senior for this, right? Since they're the ones standing to gain from you bleeding off the hall."
"I mean, we could, like, pay, a junior, I don't think we have enough mana storage to keep up with this project yet."
"Yup. And she's alchemy track, we can probably just get her to make bigger batches of stuff she'd be making anyway."
"I mean, she probably doesn't have my mother's healing ointment recipe yet? I haven't been handing it out like candy. And it's a good recipe. She might well have something even better but it wouldn't be exactly the same thing as if we weren't outsourcing it..."
"We'll see what happens. And if Clarita comes through on the homework thing you'll have more time to work on the beads, among other things..."
"It's gonna be so cool. All your projects are really cool. --I realize it's kind of weird that I'm actively excited for this, but then, I am pretty weird."
"It's weird but rather bracing! And it's nice that you're interested in hanging around the shop while I'm doing stuff."
"I didn't have a timer on it last time, do you have a ballpark of how long you'll want to go at a stretch?"
"Well, longer than that, if there's someone with shields behind us so I don't have to freak out about the possibility of anything small getting through. I could go for hours at a time."