Cricket goes to his window seat TV-watching zone.

Haru pets a wing as he passes.

"Huh, I felt that?"

"You felt... what, me petting him?"

"Yeah - it felt like I had the same sort of ability to tag you as I do when you are touching me, sort of?"

"Huh - kitty, come back -" He reaches out to pet Cricket again when he's back in arm's reach.

Haru can feel the very tiny static shock characteristic of Lucien tagging someone.

"Yep, tagged you. And Cricket's still tagged as well."

"That's great - I wonder how deep it nests but even this level is amazing, you pair with any mobility esper and get people out of really heinous dungeons hours earlier."

"Oh that is cool - I wonder how the timing works for the secondary tags. Also I think tagging you caused me a little more backlash than tagging Cricket but both felt pretty slight."

"I'm actually decent as a mobility esper, since I can fly and get past monsters, so we can pair for this."

"Oh, I'd like that."

"It works well to have partners together on dungeons if the powers mesh at all because there can be on-site guiding breaks and you don't need to assign as many different espers to rotate in."

"I think i want to know a lot more about the logistics of dungeon assignments actually."

"I've got blog posts about that!" Behold.

"I really like you."

"I really like you too." Kiss.

Oh good Lucien's telepathic requests for a kiss worked.

It wasn't telepathic, he said it out loud, it's just a nonliteral idiom.

Oh yes that makes sense.

Lucien has a bunch more ideas for experiments - he wants to test the number of people he can tag and maximum distance he can pull someone back from and whether he can do multiple people at once.

Haru has friends but mostly the kind he calls on the phone and not the kind he physically assembles in locations; they can however get permission to try this on a high school esper fanclub that a work friend of Ren's is the faculty supervisor for.

Lucien doesn't really have any idea what to expect from the members of such a club but is game to experiment on them with his powers if they're good for it.

They're very enthusiastic! Does he have a codename, he needs one.

Lucien doesn't but he can shoot Haru a helpless glance.

"He's still thinking about it, if you guys have any ideas."