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When the hours had passed and Kaya had finally taken down her vines to not only strip them of the privacy she had provided but also to unlock the doors of the Mage-Knight Training classroom, Caius saw the two ladies off to their dormitories.
The puncture marks he had made in their necks with his fangs had been healed by Kaya which had ignited a short debate.
"What are you doing?" Eloise said after Kaya healed herself and turned to the same to her.
"Getting rid of the marks," Kaya said with a smile, "Or the evidence, if you will."
"Why would you do that?" Eloise had asked with her hand clamped over the marks so as not to give Kaya access, "It'll heal on its own and I want it to stay a while longer."
"That's… not preferable," Caius said then, "It'll draw attention."
"Why would it?" Eloise asked with a shrug.
"Very few things make those particular sort of wounds," Caius told her gently with a hand on her cheek, "It's just better safe than sorry."
