"We won't!"  She carries Haru to a couch and deposits him thereon without breaking contact, and once he's safely down she can cuddle up properly.

Snuggle. "So if you've already read the Tempest is there any other classic literature I should summarize at you, I have the taste of an English professor."

"Oh, I don't know.  - There was a, it showed up in my recommendeds, there was this song that was kind of a real banger, I didn't look into the rest of the show, but I think it was based on The Sorrows of Young Werther, do you know that one?"

(Xavier seats himself in an adjacent armchair, dons a pair of reading glasses, and unobtrusively interacts with a little e-ink tablet.)

"I have not read it though I think I recall hearing it was linked to a rash of suicides while it was contemporary."

"Woah.  I don't know, then, whatever you want."

"You read much Dickens?"

"I like Muppet's Christmas Carol!  I don't really, like, read."

He's seen Muppet Christmas Carol, albeit when he was like nine. He can go into how the adaptation differs from the original book.

"- Sorry, can we - I'm just really antsy, as a person; I think we're going to need to shuffle around every few minutes, if - we're doing this.  My arm is squished, can I have it back?"

"Yeah. Would it be easier if I just laid down and you sat on me or something, so you didn't have to ask whenever you need to reposition?"

Her arm is hers now, but it can be hers around Haru's shoulders.  "Wouldn't that... hurt?  You??  I'm kind of worried that it would and you wouldn't be able to ask me to move."

"It probably depends where on me you sit and how much weight you distribute to the couch? This is also fine though."

"Would a massage or something work, where movement's already involved, or is it just - surface area -"

"That probably works great but I expect to be like this for a week so I am trying to think of low effort options."

"Those will probably be very useful when I have not just downed a large latte."  She spins him away from her and starts on his shoulders.

"Thank you and your latte." He is possibly the tensest person she has ever touched.

Jesus Christ.  Does he loosen up at all with effort?  She is not like, practiced at this, but.

Not really, no. Back to Christmas Carol followed by Oliver Twist.

Sure.

"I'll be right back," she announces when he's done with the latter.

- that is completely reasonable but he casts a frantic look at her quiet uncle.

He glances up.  "Hello."

"Hello, would it be too optimistic to assume that you decided to invite a psychiatrically lonely stranger into your home because you are not averse to keeping said stranger company. From less distance at least while Ari's up."

"Not at all."  He de-glasseses and transfers himself to the couch with an open arm.  "I've been looking into your condition."

He tucks himself under the arm gratefully. "Yeah? Find anything?"