"Only a little, ma'am."

"Enough to keep me interested, right?"

"Of course, ma'am."

"I like you already, Jialin."

Heeeee!

She blushes. 

El shares out the toast and jam and honey around the table and pushes two of the apples on Luthien.

She gobbles the apples and her share of the toast down. "I definitely approve of this acquisition," she says. 

"Glad to know we're of one mind." Kiss!

Kiss!!

"I should go, uh, check in, probably," Daniella says to Luthien as breakfast is winding down.

"...Okay. Catch up to us in the library?"

"You bet."

"See you there, cutie." And quick kiss. 

Eee a kiss!

Then it's a happy Daniella that hurries off to catch up with her enclavemates and figure out what she missed after disappearing yesterday evening.

A lot. Including a very confused and mixed reaction to her apparently dating the terrifying duo. 

- Does she think she can get them for New York? They can probably justify two guaranteed seats for this. 

That's going to be a qualified 'maybe'. It won't be quick and it won't be easy, but- they like her.

She should try. And let them know those guaranteed seats are on offer. 

She'll make sure to do that. Not. She can't think of a quicker way to turn them off faster, actually.

They also want to know what Daniella knows about how the girls pulled off killing the mawmouth, and if it was mostly Shanghai or mostly them, and what they were meeting the girl from Shanghai about...

She doesn't think the Shanghai girl had much to do with it. Other than the mana from her power sharer. Luthien and El are just. Ridiculously deadly.

Which just makes it more important to get them on board. 

Right. She'll work on it.

Thanks. (They seem more or less done with their questions.)

Cool. She's got some work to catch up on, and she should spend some time building mana...

Yeah, they'll let her go.