"Yes please. Also um, don't prevent people from telling me otherwise even if disagree with them maybe?"

"...well, I'm kind of of two minds about that because on the one hand I'm disinclined to censor your communications but also if someone thought it'd be fun to screw around with my backlash delusions I'd be incredibly upset with them and would want anyone purporting to be looking after me to shoo them."

"I... think I trust you more than anyone else alive by a lot but I am not sure I trust you more than everyone else if that makes sense?"

"Okay. I don't really expect anyone to come try to talk to you about this, but I really don't expect more than one person to do it, so how about I get, like, one to three free passes to send people packing and after that I will have to concede that there is a vocal minority sizeable enough to be worth listening to - also don't listen to Cricket, he's a jerk just in general, he'll probably leave you alone at my request but if he does say something."

"Okay though uh - if someone is a representative of a larger group like a prime minister or a general I think that should also count."

"Yes, if the prime minister tries to talk to you I will let him."

"Uh, any Prime Minister not just the Filipino one."

"I don't even know if the Philippines has a Prime Minister, I was imagining ours, but sure, any prime minister, president, premier, etcetera. Possibly not crazy warlords even if they style themselves with one of these titles. Even if it turns out you did something awful, which again I very much doubt, you would deserve a fair trial and not an assassination."

"I think that depends on whether I am at risk of doing more awful things if I'm not assassinated?"

"Well, I don't think you are, and I don't believe crazy warlords to be at elevated ability to discern that."

"That sounds correct, I think."

Does Napoleon count as a crazy warlord? If Napoleon wanted to kill Lucien that would possibly be a good idea but Lucien is aware that Napoleon can't exactly do that because even if he might want to Napoleon wouldn't be able to on account of having died two centuries in the past. Well, Napoleon could have skipped forward like Lucien but by the end of his life probably didn't have great judgment and anyways Haru's judgement seems better than Napoleon's even at his prime...

"Glad to hear it. Almost home. If you want to go for more flights over the course of the week let me know, I usually have no reasonable opportunity to fly for non-tactical reasons."

"I'm not sure I would enjoy flying on it's own merits but you enjoying flying me is nice and also your hands on my body are nice so I don't know what I'll prefer."

"So you're aware, it's not specifically hands, it's all skin contact. Also fluid exchange. We could get you blood typed and see if I can donate you blood, though that's not the most common option." He lands on his doorstep, sets Lucien down without ever breaking contact and takes his hand, and lets them in. Cricket has a window-cat-door and goes in that way.

"Okay, I can do that - I do not particularly have a preference for hands and also if anyone else is willing to do this who isn't you that would also be okay I guess, though I do trust you and the thing where I'm probably having delusions might be harder to deal with if I didn't trust the person I'm around."

"So valid. It's hard to find a compatible person anyway, you could get dozens of people swinging by to poke you and not be compatible with a single one of them, so mostly they won't bother. I can tell Paula what your backlash is if you don't mind her knowing, and get her to recommend someone if there's anyone who seems like a really obvious match."

"I don't mind anyone knowing if for some reason they can't already tell. Also uh, I do prefer you be the person guiding me in particular."

Hoo boy. "Okay. Do you think it is possible that, before this happened, you would have wanted to be more private about your backlash? A lot of people do; I don't but that's because I want people to know why I'm acting weird when I'm under a lot of it."

"... I think in the past I wasn't under the impression that so many people would care about it? I wasn't typically private very far past the point of what's required by politeness but I guess not talking about your mental illness is required by politeness so perhaps not?"

"...it's not particularly impolite to talk about your mental illness unless you get really detailed about it with people who don't know you that well. Especially if it's a magical mental illness. Uh, I'm going to go to the bathroom, do you think you'll be okay for a minute without me?"

"Of course," Lucien says without thinking about it at all.

"Also that sounds like politeness standards around mental illness have changed which I can't say I object to. They didn't seem very reasonable."

"I'm sort of surprised you thought about it enough to so conclude!" Haru says, dialing Paula and letting go to go to the bathroom once she picks up.

"I've read a bit of medicine and the content on psychology was not very impressive."  Which is technically true but really the reason he concluded this is because he decided that even if his parents each being attracted to their same-sex was a mental illness forcing everyone to be so secretive about the condition wasn't actually helpful.

"Hi, Paula! Time travel guy is awakening! Yeah, he says I can tell you, I haven't pinned it down very exactly but I think something in the family of delusions of reference. He's very compatible with me, noticeable from a few steps away, but if there's anyone obvious? Yes I am. Sorry not sorry. Yeah, I flew him home from the hospital. That's a solid probably. Also I've left June in the lurch and don't know if it'll be possible to go back to her this week, if you could tell her brother that'll be faster than waiting till I can text again - thanks."

Oh god June, he forgot about her, presumably she hates Lucien now. And her brother will too and Paula and oh no Haru maybe? Haru not being able to text because he needs to hold Lucien's hand is probably not helping and definitely explains why Haru isn't coming out of the bathroom to hold him again because presumably Haru hates him now. Lucien is going to sort of freeze up about this apparently.