—then notices it's empty (by turning it over and examining the couple of droplets that fall from it), and humpfs.

"Were you friends?"

"Drinking buddies!" He lets go of Tae-gun and turns away, looking up at the sky. "She had stories about her dungeons, and half of 'em were lies, but I didn't know which half. They were such good stories, too!"

(He sniffles, once, and rubs his eyes with the back of his hand.)

Then he turns back around, still grinning. "So we should share stories, too!"

...Si-yeon's lost multiple people to this confluence.

Tae-gun walks up to him and pulls him into a hug.

He freezes, at first...

...but then he hugs back and starts shaking. "Damnit."

So much for being done with feelings today.

Well, they can share stories, then. Happy ones. Cool ones, badass ones. Good ones, maybe not all of which are true.

It would be wrong to say that Woo-young spent the day anxious about Hana and Nightmare, because he spent a lot of the day working dungeons, but there was a larger amount of that than he'd like. And he doesn't think that Kang Jaeha has any reason to mess with Hana, but... the thought still makes him bristle.

He supposes he'll ask how it went, once she comes back to the silo, and he'll only worry about her a little bit in the meantime.

Will he be more or less worried if she comes back to the silo literally shaking like a leaf? Because that is how she arrives.

She would like to please nestle silently against him and hide from the whole wide world.

...more! Definitely more!

Unfortunately he has very little control of his arms right now—not none, the more acute symptoms have diluted a bit and he's regained some of the motion he'd lost to the dungeons—so he can't properly hold her. He can still do his best. "Hey, it's okay, it's alright," he says in a soft voice. "I'm here."

This earns a little pitiful whine and her sort of - curling around him like some kind of cat.

She's very backlashed.

Yeah...

...hmm...

Her backlash is anxiety, but he doesn't know her well enough yet to have a good understanding of what her anxieties tend to be about. She hasn't opened up all that much to him, and he knows it'll be a process, but he can at least try to ask. "Do you want to talk about your day?"

".... Mm-mm," she hums in a negative.

"Did a terrible job and probably everyone hates me," she eventually elaborates.

"...I doubt that very, very much. I especially doubt it because Quasar got requests to place me on handholding duty for you because of how much they wanted to keep you around." He can't actually accept those requests, he's an invaluable rescue esper, but he got them anyway. "And you're an incredibly talented, smart, and driven esper with an amazing work ethic. Nightmare is the worst dungeon there is and I'm really proud of you for facing it."

........ Sniffle.

She hums an affirmative, and then apparently it's crying on him time.

Woo-young can move his arms enough to wrap them around her stiffly, if he tries, and he can let her cry on him. 

(He doesn't think he's ready for much more than this, yet, but... there's a part of him that sees the appeal in comfort sex.)

Excellent. Hana is grateful for this service. She is a very tall woman who is making herself so very small and even if she feels stupid for crying on him, it's more efficient for handling backlash, so it's probably okay.

.... After a while she requests the resumption of the dorama they'd left off, last time.

They can though he might need her to be the one to do it, she has more finger mobility than he does to use remote controllers.

Oh. Yes. She will need to be directed to do it, but she does in fact have mobility and can make this happen. She now Has A Task and Can Complete That Task! (She apologizes for not realizing she needed to be the one to do things sooner.)

She really doesn't need to apologise. When she's less backlashed he's going to suggest her a new Procedure™ (not saying the word sorry), but for now they can watch dumb romances.

This is soothing, and she does soon stop crying, settling down for watching extremely dumb romances and snuggling.

She's still very quiet, but she's stopped shaking, too.

Yeah. It... probably wasn't Kang Jaeha, it almost certainly wasn't him, actually, so Woo-young can relax a bit.

Just snuggling while watching doramas isn't enough to make him able to walk, he'd need to snuggle all night long for that, but it's enough that he regains most upper body mobility, and after a while of that at the end of an episode he says, "Do you want to eat anything?"

“… yeah,” she agrees, after a long pause of consideration. It’s not that she’s hungry, it’s that she should eat something.