What felt like a long time later, but was in reality probably a minute or two, the two men Apparated away from their makeshift lab. Lance held Valmae right where she was for another couple of silent minutes to make certain that they weren't being watched by anyone else before he let her go.
"Look, they're gone, so yeh need to get home. I'll rig this so it's siphoning a lot slower, but we can't dismantle it entirely right now or they'll notice. And not many people know where this lab is, so them noticin' would be a very bad thing."