"Cut her tongue out. Leave her in the hall."

"Stay with me."

Her pupils are blown wide with - something. Fear. Anger. Arousal. One or more or all of those, or something else entirely. "I wanna eat her," she whines. "She's mine."

"Lu." El holds out a hand. "C'mere."

She crawls over and snuggles - careful of the wound - into El's side. 

Hug and soft lil' kiss. "Love you, sis."

"You're so strong and vicious and inventive and fierce and I love you so, so much. If you wanna eat her, she's yours."

Kiss! "Love you too, sis," she says, quietly, something fragile in her voice. (...She wants to cry, but she doesn't have time because it's less than five minutes until curfew.)

"Still want you to stay with me tonight, though."

"Always. I'm yours."

Kiss.

"Better eat your girl before the mals get her, then."

Giggle! "I'll be fast." And she slips off El's bed, and paralyzes Jacky again - no sense taking chances - and then cuts off a few fingers to experimentally chew, and sets up the room so El will be comfortable.

It turns out, Jacky keeps producing mana - quite a lot, she's probably really struggling - that Lu can keep siphoning off. And something about the burst of blood in her mouth invigorates Lu even more. It helps actually, with killing the hoard of mals trying to enter El's room - it helps too that a lot of the mals get distracted by the bloodied almost-corpse and go for that first.

Also, at least one mal enters the room, sees Lu cracking a bone open with her teeth, and promptly tries to leave again. Lu lets them go, grudgingly. She doesn't have the energy to waste.

The stream slows down eventually, and there's sometimes gaps with nothing attacking them, which Lu spends eating or trying to process body parts into storable food without wasting a ton of mana or clueing other students to what happened (at one point she gets up and asks El's void for a suitable spell, and gets a very helpful cookbook out, that includes actually useful cleaning spells centrally designed for getting blood out of assorted surfaces; it isn't titled, but she immediately declares that if it sticks around she'll make it a new cover-protector titled 'To Serve Man'), or kneeling beside El's bed where El can pet her hair.

She's very, very exhausted by the time morning curfew ends. And also very, very covered in blood.

Luthien is very pretty when she's bathed in the blood of El's enemies, and El has told her so at several points over the course of the night.

But maybe El had better use one of those cleaning spells before they try for the showers.

El's praise pretty dramatically helps the sick, uncertain feeling in her gut. Though, she has a point about cleaning up... Even if Lu's full - and even if El feels like eating some of what Lu's storing away - missing breakfast would be silly. 

And... She wants to find out if Daniella is okay.

Yeah. Something obviously happened, Jacky was burned pretty badly...

And already bloody. 

Then they should investigate.

Clean up, first, both themselves and the bloodstains on the floor and the remnants of Jacky's corpse, then - over to Daniella's door right after morning curfew ends? Or to shower first? 

Should shower first. Don't want to be too suspicious.

Yeah. ...Though they can probably tell Daniella they killed Jacky.

Sure. She'll want to know. Though... maybe not the, uh, details?

...Yeah. Maybe. 

When they know her better, maybe.

She'll leave that judgment up to El.

Fair enough.

Shower time!

She'll help wash El, so she doesn't aggravate the gut wound. 

Such a thoughtful sister.