"I think I can probably manage controlling where someone lands by putting my hands to the side or something? They'd still have to end up next to be but not quite so snug."

"Not that um. I mind. You. Being snug."

"I'd have to conclude I handled your awakening badly if you hated it at this point."

"No, you handled it extremely well."

"Oh good. Awakenings suck. Worst part of being an esper."

Nod nod.

"It had its silver linings."

"Having superpowers and being ridiculously healthy is cool. And guiding is nice."

"I was mostly thinking about the guiding and the you." ... Lucien may have gotten out of the habit of filtering around Haru oh no.

Handhold. For guiding.

A blush. Due to guiding.

Haru's artichoke comes out first. "You can have half if you want," he says.

Lucien will try, like, a third.

Is this a gender thing that is happening? Lucien is unclear how that works when he's a homosexual.

"Do you think you have any other powers or is that the only one that's come to your attention?"

"I think that's the only one?"

"You might get a surprise, but it's a pretty solid power even on its own - if you want to go dungeoneering I'd expect you to wind up with an escort who can protect you from dungeons that are hard to traverse and you'd tap all the prisoners and then bring them all to you at the entrance instead of having to haul them."

"I guess that sounds reasonably useful, yeah. I never really imagined myself as the sort of person who want on rescue missions into hostile environments but I suppose it could be rather rewarding. And the bit where my contribution would be related to the logistics of transporting people is satisifying."

"It'll depend how long you can maintain - pullability - on a person, whether you can be huge for logistics like pulling specialist or high-power espers to particularly dire dungeons, but teleporters who can do that are incredibly valuable."

"My guess is it's not permanent but I'm not sure have no idea how long it's for."

"It's probably useful for this if it lasts for even a day or two, but you'd need to pair with another teleporter who could get you wherever you needed to pull people. Any less than that and you'd have to be within daily commute distance of anyone you wanted on tap and it'd be easier to just transport them directly."

"Yeah, that makes sense. Hmm...I am unclear on whether the tap automatically refreshes if I touch someone again but it might and probably to test it I would need to not touch someone until it stopped."

"Cricket'll probably play along if -" no, he doesn't need to finish that sentence, he is trying not to break the cute boy.

"Hm? If I want to test my power on him?"

"On someone you would be fine not touching for a while, yes."

"That sounds fine?"

"I'll pitch him on it next time I see him, then."

Eventually Lucien's meal comes! He makes faces about the Fanta in particular.