Haru will hold his hand all the way to wherever they get water. And probably after that.

It's the kitchen.  "Does anything sound especially delicious?"

"...if I were home and Ren didn't want to cook I'd maybe order pizza?"

"The location of my home was chosen for factors other than delivery coverage.  I don't mind cooking; is pizza still your first choice?"

"I don't know what ingredients you have. Or if you can even make pizza on short notice, I think it needs to rise and stuff? I think something with cheese in it is my first choice but I am not otherwise feeling very picky."

"I've occasionally been known to be partial to a flatbread crust."

Ari walks swayfully - dancingly, but not elegantly - into the kitchen.  "I want pizza if and only if you have pepperoni that's like, regular, and not the fancy rich person stuff."

"Mm.  By that do you mean -"

"- I don't want to eat anything that used to be a whole animal.  Anymore.  I have decided.  I don't care if it's fancy somehow other than that."

"As you prefer.  I can check what's in the freezer."

"I have not been super impressed with vegan meat alternatives in the past, though, like, I'll eat tofu if it's in front of me."

"I just mean like regular meat."

"Does... this universe have, like, replicators or something?"

"No.  But we do culture a fair fraction of our food."

"Oh, that's neat, I don't think we have that."

"Why are you smiling so much about this."

"Oh, it's exciting, don't you think?  To find a more mundane difference between our timelines.  If communication and travel are possible between Haru's world and ours, we might have something useful in itself to trade them."

"You really believe this, don't you."

"At least somewhat, yes."

"Huh."

"I'm interested to try cultured meat!"

"Ariel, will you attend to preventing our guest's starvation of touch so that I may attend to preventing our collective starvation of calories."

"Mmhm."  Hug?

Hug. "Prevention isn't really on the table. Actually I am actively trying to be as touch-starved as I can because it's less psychological than the other ways I seem able to bend. Indulging it, maybe?"

"Aw."