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"I trust you to figure things out."

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"That means a lot to me."

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"I'm glad."

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Smile.

"Trust is a key component of a good relationship."

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"Especially one like ours."

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"Exactly."

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"So feel free to get creative."

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"As you command."

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She'll leave Chengsu to handle this, then. 

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Very well. On to the task at hand. Now, with her new license to creativity, she could get fancy but... She thinks Luthien Higgins would not so much appreciate that approach. So instead, she will simply approach her table at dinner.

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She doesn't know literally everyone in her year - but some of the loser freshmen hanging around her are from one of the indie seats secured by Shanghai, and one of those spots Chengsu approaching and leans in and whispers to Luthien who she is.

So Luthien looks up as Chengsu approaches, expression more or less neutral, and asks in Mandarin, "What do you want?"

(Her accent has a pretty textbook undercurrent, the kind that suggests she first learned the language from a tutor, but she speaks casually and quickly, and she's picked up a few bits and pieces of actual vernacular over the years.)

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"A meeting, if you have time. Shanghai has questions."

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"We don't have time this evening," she says, firmly, then glances at El. "We might tomorrow after dinner, however." That'd be Saturday; she and El need to work on the collar basically the entire evening, and they're hoping to finish tomorrow morning and spend as much of the weekend celebrating as they can get away with. "Depends on what you want to offer for your answers."

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She produces a mana crystal by sleight of hand, displays it briefly, then vanishes it again.

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Thoughtful eyebrow raise, and a small smile. "Think we have time, darling?" she asks El, tone light. (But her eyes are hungry - even with what she took from Jacky, she's been running a thin edge on mana.)

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"Tomorrow night? We can find a little time."

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"We'll see you in the library, then," she says cheerfully to Chengsu. "After dinner - meet us at the start of the Sanskrit aisles." 

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"Tomorrow night. Thank you." She nods and makes her goodbyes.

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Weird, though not a kind of weird she and El can discuss over dinner. And, after dinner, their work on the collar is a lot more pressing in Lu's mind... (It might be worth bringing someone else down to help Lu hold the perimeter, too, though their only real option for that is probably Daniella, who's still a bad idea for New York reasons. Though if they can pull her over subtly...)

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El only needs a little while longer in the workshop. The rest of it can be done in her room.

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Including the finishing touches? 

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Especially the finishing touches.

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(Shiver.) Then the only problem is Lu will have trouble dragging herself away when curfew approaches... 

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Maybe this can be a chance to practice the virtue of doing what El says?

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Help firm up the intent behind the magic...

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