"I'm going to make a polearm!"

"Ooh, what kind? I bet these would make a great sodegarami."

"If I get enough teeth!"

She pries teeth more energetically. "What are the eyes for?"

"Going to crystallize them and sell them to Hyacinth Castle."

"Nice." She's not sure what Hyacinth Castle is going to use them for but she bets that will be cool, too. 

Once she has all the teeth out that she can reach from the argonet's current angle she starts pulling scales, keeping an eye out for any eyes she missed the first time. 

Once she has the head more-or-less stripped of externally appealing objects, she says, "Okay, I'm going to try to pull it out now. Unless you have a spell to temporarily reanimate it or something that'd use less mana, El." 

"If you want an undead argonet I can probably get you one but I don't actually have a spell for it off the top of my head and I don't think that would make it less stuck than it currently is."

"Well, it climbed all this way somehow. Anyway, I was just checking." 

She makes sure the piles of useful stuff have been shoved out of the way, and then cups her hands over her mouth to muffle the words from Aadhya and El's hearing, and starts incanting in Mandarin. 

She stumbles, and has to hang onto a doorway, but the argonet slowly, and with a horrible slurping noise, starts oozing out of the shaft and into the hallway. 

Someone pokes their head out of shop to see what the noise is, then pales and runs up the stairs. Lucia ignores him, too busy focusing on ensuring that the argonet gets yanked out of the wall instead of her getting yanked into it. 

She gets most of the (extremely horrible) corpse out, but one of the legs and part of the tail drop away into the shaft, too gnawed on by scavengers to hold on through that much jostling. Once the place where the wall should be is clear, Lucia releases the spell and says, "Okay, put the new wall up, hurry." 

El and Aadhya spring into action.

Lucia gets to work butchering the corpse. 

It ends up taking longer than putting the new wall up, which is hardly surprising, given the size of the corpse. But once she's got the hide and therefore scales off, she wonders aloud (wiping sweat off with an only mildly horrible forearm, "I don't suppose you happen to have something to get rid of the flesh but leave the bones clean and intact." 

"I do, actually! This will be rather horrible, if you want to stand back a bit." And she chants in Latin and the flesh melts, leaving a mostly intact argonet skeleton clean and dry on the floor with only a few tendons to keep the bones connected in place.

Lucia stands back, and then throws her hands in the air victoriously. 

"El, I love your horrible spell repertoire." 

"I'm glad someone does."

Aadhya's going to take a few trips to get argonet bones to the shop.

Lucia helps. "I mean, I definitely also want you to have non-horrible spells, but the number of times you've repurposed a horrible spell to do something cool is just really excellent. I would be much less in favor of those spells in someone else's hands I'm quite sure." 

"Well, someone had to write them. Sometimes I get them in books that are at least meant to look like they were bound in human skin."

She makes a face. "I'm not in favor of that. But, like, it's not news that people sometimes do horrible things and write horrible spells." 

"Your life is so concerning," Aadhya tells El.

"Yeah-huh." Bones transported! Hide transported! It's good that the project lockers borrow space from each other and Aadhya's sneaking a few cubic inches off every other student who isn't putting much in theirs at the moment!

They can stash some of the bones in Lucia's locker and Liu's and El's, too, even borrowing space you could not fit an entire argonet skeleton into one locker. 

"I think we're going to have to haul some of this up to our rooms, too." 

"Yeah, you're not wrong. I think we can get it to the point of only needing one trip though."

"Yeah..." 

Lucia does a quick poke through the cabinets, stabbing a few mals hiding there, and turns up a ball of sturdy twine that they can use to tie things together to make the one trip easier. 

And they and their macabre haul can head up the stairs.

The fact that people definitely see them hauling big ol' bones up the stairs does not stop one of the New York seniors from coming over to their table at dinner and informing Lucia in a simultaneously concerned and outraged tone that El was seen with an incredibly ominous column of darkness, and also a zombie argonet. 

Lucia stares at her until she starts looking uncomfortable. 

"--Those were both me," she says, in the slow tones of someone talking to an idiot or a very small child. "I got some stuff on me when I killed the argonet, so El gave me a concealing cloud of darkness until we could get back up to the junior hall to deal with it," the "stuff" being mana and glowyness, but she doesn't need to know that, "and the argonet wasn't a zombie, I was just dragging it out of the maintenance shaft so we could harvest its body parts. Aadhya is going to make me a sodegarami out of its teeth." 

"...Oh," the senior says awkwardly, attempting to pretend that this isn't incredibly embarrassing for her, "what...happened to the maintenance shaft?" 

"El and Aadhya put the wall right back with the phase-change spell. Anyone who wants can go see the result." 

(The conversation is happening loud enough that a small handful of Sanskrit-having seniors, including some but not all of the ones at the original demo, get up and leave, presumably to go look at the wall.) 

Hopefully they are simply good Samaritans.