She's on board. 

What kind of fallout are they expecting before graduation that won't exist after? 

Oh. Right. Things have all been kind of a lot since they formalized this alliance so there's some things they haven't gotten around to sharing with Shinta yet-

The extremely compressed version is that Lu ran away from New York when she was young for reasons related to the fact that Lu and El are capable of killing a mawmouth. This feat plus excessively firm evidence that Lu has less than zero intention of joining an enclave (such as getting a New Yorker to join their alliance rather than the other way around) might suggest to certain parties a connection to the runaway child of several years ago. Thence leading to things like violence against families, or ambushes immediately following the current juniors' own graduation.

- Was Luthien adopted by Gwen Higgins or is that a red herring? And is El trying to provide a decoy? Shinta's noticed her and Luthien shifting some of their behavior about New York. 

Yes she was adopted and yes El is attempting to deflect. El is also the daughter of Gwen Higgins but has not advertised that fact.

...Huh.

Well, Shinta can possibly help deflect. Spread contrasting rumors, muddy the waters a bit. 

Once they're out of the Scholomance they expect to have more options to proactively deal with things, but- yeah. Shinta's efforts would help.

At least get things a bit less dire by the time they're out. 

Hopefully.

Anything she can do for the upcoming repair effort, though? 

"Believe in it," El says.

"...I was thinking more like a gun. Or a rocket launcher. Or an automated targeting system with a couple big cruise missiles, if Jiana loans me some minions."

"If I knew how to shoot a gun," El says solemnly, "I would take a gun."

"Aim doesn't really matter if your payload is high enough."

"Might get a little awkward when we're there to fix things."

"So no anti-personnel artillery? I could make you a gun-mortar. Mortars are portable. And not really siege weapons, so you probably won't blow a hole in the school. My machine gun is also pretty 'point and kill', though you'd need to worry more about clear line of sight."

"If it's small enough to be a sidearm..."

"...I can probably teach you to fire a small gun, I guess."

"Thanks, Shinta."

"No problem."

Nod.

"Jialin? Any concerns?"

"...Not - real ones."

"Tell me your fake ones, then."

"...I can't protect you there."

Huff. "Seems like that's a bit of a theme."

"You've earned a lot of loyalty."