--- Lily ---
Lily carefully used her shadows and remaining mana to cut through the ceiling. Kat's mental map had ensured she had a pretty good idea of where she was ending up… though she was erring on the side of caution. Appoline had brewing equipment set up after all, and dumping whatever the roof was made out of into an unstable potion wasn't a great idea. So Lily was leaning more towards the hallway… perhaps a bit too far.
When the small hole she'd cut was opened up Lily found herself looking down at the hall. Still, cutting another hole would just mean she was wasting time, so Lily jumped down, even using a tiny bit of mana to make shadow wings instead of her own. The risk of making noise due to the pain was too high and the mana cost was miniscule and easy to justify. It did still hurt a bit when she reached the ground, but that was just from movement at all.
