It's too late to get ahead of the rumors, unfortunately - but everyone's concern about a second mawmouth does dramatically simplify networking in some ways.

Nothing like a clear and present common enemy.

Though it's harder to get seniors behind evacuating the entire school.

There's more of everybody else than there is of them.

And it'll reduce their own chances if they're having to keep younger years alive - and some do have concerns about survivability outside the school. 

Okay, what can they do about those survivability concerns?

Make it... More survivable? Some kind of mega-enclave would probably have the same problems as the Scholomance, though, and also they still don't really know why mom hates enclaves - there's gotta be a reason. 

Or, y'know, they could just kill all the mals. Like it's that easy.

How?

Well. Easiest would be if they could group them all up in one place somehow.

Killing that many mals would be a lot, even for them - even if they figure out a way to get every mal into one place.

They're not the only ones in the school capable of fighting.

" - El, I don't think this can be solved by being the best murderer of them all, or by getting a lot of killers in one place for an ultimate battle. It's - " She struggles to put something into words that she knows, deep down. "I think - I think if we kill them and kill and kill some more, we won't just - run out. Ever. We'd be fighting for an eternity." Unless she eats them all.

"Okay. Then- what?"

"...I don't know."

"We should get together with other people who'll know stuff about like - magic theory. How to get rid of mals."

"Right. Who do we know that does that?"

"Liesel, definitely. Anyone else who was in our maleficaria creation or magic philosophy classes. Probably some of the other enclavers know things?"

"Let's get a meeting together."

Saturday in the library?

Sooner the better. That works.

She'll make the rounds once they finish eating. 

Thanks, Lu.

It's her pleasure. 

And El loves her for it.

Kiss!