"Which half is harder to swallow?"

"I think the entire 'terrifying incestuous lesbians who keep picking up devoted girlfriends' packet, really. And a little that you're related to Gwen Higgins, but everyone was already used to that contradiction with Luthien."

"Fair enough. Are you looking for me to confirm the truth?"

"You're scary enough I've made a killing off promising people I'll get information for them. Up to you what you want me to tell them, though I'll want payment for anything blatantly false; can't go trading away my good rep for cheap."

"Cat's already out of the bag. Gwen Higgins is my mum, and Lu's my sister."

"Any narrative you want me to spin people towards?"

"'Don't fuck with the evil lesbians'?"

"I'll do that one for free - it'll keep everyone looking to me as the point person, after all."

"Sounds like a win-win scenario."

"My favorite kind."

"Was there anything else you wanted?"

"Not unless you have something for me."

"Not yet."

"You know where to find me if you do think of anything."

"I do. See you around, Liesel."

"See you." And she's off. 

"Now, where were we, pretty girl..."

"Going to my room, Mistress."

"So we were. Let us carry on."

"As you say, Mistress." Room!!!

Indeed.

So El's got some time to kill, letting Lu and Dani have some privacy together...

Jialin, fortunately, likes things much more prolonged than Luthien does...

A quite enjoyable trait of hers.

She has the stamina for it, too. 

Most impressive.