“Don’t worry. It’s closed” Kathlin said reassuringly as the Draenei’s eyes drooped into sleep. “You can tell by the way this shop isn’t on fire”

Waiting a few seconds for Mei to be fully unconscious, the girl placed a hand around the top of the draenei’s left shoulder, and the other on her collar bone, before shoving the shoulder back into its ball joint. There was an audible grinding noise in this, followed by a ‘clunk’. 

“That is going to sting when she wakes up” Kathlin turned to Vashi who had been hovering beside her, to remark as such in a confidential tone. “She really shouldn’t be swinging a sword for at least a couple of days. She’s not going to listen to me. She might to you?”

“Hm…no thanks” Liaena said, after eying the jet pack speculatively for a moment. “The solid form solution though…does it work on gases?”

“Mostly. It makes it into a jelly!”

“Uhuh, and what’s the boiling point of the solution?”

“Wha…ah, an excellent point, an excellent point!” Gimpsy said gleefully as she continued to sort through bottles and tins. “The answer is, tests are still ongoing – but if you’d like to leave feedback, I could maybe give you a retroactive…”

The gnome turned around at this point, to eye up Liaena speculatively. “…two point five percent discount”

“ten percent” Liaena said, more to keep up appearances than anything else. The girl was keeping at least half an eye on Sharon at all times, meaning she was not paying full attention to the gnome. The High Elf looked completely miserable, and it wasn’t hard to understand why. Given the circumstances, ‘I told you so’s’ about their acceptance of the Night Elf horde, could probably wait until later. 

“Phssh….five percent”

“Fine”

Hopefully at any rate, Sherpa’s agents would be too preoccupied banking as much as they could out of this political and financial victory, to be too urgently attempting to murder the whole lot of them. 

“Okay I’ll take two of the SFS…plus some of the transmogrify, a shrinking elixir and the standard alchemic suite”

“….”

“Oh, and for the transmogrify…do you have any subject samples?” Liaena enquired as an afterthought as the gnome was about to bustle off. “For a human, or a high elf would do”

“It’s not part of the standard purchase but I will…check” Gimpsy muttered, before heading into the back. 

“We need to have you looking much less distinctive” Liaena said quietly as she headed back to the morose High Elf. “Guaranteeably the watch will be after you for questioning. At least.”
“That also goes for you, Li” Kathlin remarked offhandedly as she wound a bandage around Malizia’s shoulder. “I can see the newspapers tomorrow. Psychotic priestess blows up boyfriend’s manor. Assumed crazed gesture of affection”

“It has been a while since I made the front page” Liaena agreed in a thoughtful tone, before switching her attention back to Sharon. “Regardless, my point still stands”