"He teleports? He's stable and reasonable as a person?"

"Um. Also during the fight a plan I had to stop Leviathan from doing too much damage went wrong and it allowed him to kill her when ordinarily she would probably have been fine."

"Just um. Thought you should be informed. Of things."

"My dad isn't an esper and teleporting wouldn't be in my top ten guesses of what he'd get if he were but he's stable and reasonable, sure. ...is that supposed to be a reason not to hug you, I'm temporarily insane and definitely still want to hug you but I think even if I weren't you being sad about another version of me whatever that means having died wouldn't be a reason not to."

"Okay."

"I can maybe find a recording of him speaking at an interview and see if it matches? You have the same voice as Lorica. Also you act like her at least somewhat though I never saw her in a similar um. Emotional state. Also Tattletale's power wouldn't get this sort of thing wrong, I think."

"Oh yeah I'm usually not like this at all. I'm an introvert. So I expect to get worse over the course of the week and then not want to talk to anyone even though in theory the backlash level should stay the same. What's Tattletale's power?"

"She's got very good intuition. That matches Lorica though it's somewhat confounded by her power having her go into a sort of fugue state where she invented things and didn't want company."

"I don't think there's inventing things espers. People with powers here are 'capes'?"

"Technically capes are people who use their powers, people who have powers are parahumans but most parahumans are capes. There are a bunch with inventing things powers."

This is really not a great position for his leg and his arms are starting to get tired but he doesn't need to do anything about that this second.

If he shifts she'll shift with him uncomplainingly. "There's 'inactive' espers, usually because they don't have partners. To guide them."

He would shift if his brain were better at suggesting how exactly he should shift instead of freezing up about determining how to comfortably cuddle his dead crush.

"Most capes can use there powers without downsides - though some like Tattletale get migraines with overuse - so you don't see many inactive ones."

"How does she get rid of the migraine?"

"It goes away on it's own eventually, I think? If no one makes it worse. Which uh, we probably did."

"Oh no."

"She will still recover but I am uh, not going to call her again for anything less important than verifying you weren't some sort of trap was."

Lucien squirms a bit.

"Also um, we should probably change positions, this isn't very good for my leg and my arms are starting to get tired."

"Of course, however's good for you is fine."

Oh no. What if. He drops his arms like this and moves his leg this minimal amount because that will solve all of the immediate problems probably. This does not really have a reasonable result but he doesn't have any other ideas.

Snuggle. "I didn't catch your name?"

Oh that works much better.

"Oh, I'm Lucien. Uh - what was yours again. I was sort of trying to filter out what words you were saying earlier because I thought you might be doing voice based power things."

"I'm May."

"Um. Nice to meet you May?"

".... Uh, probably that wasn't the right thing to say at all sorry it was a reflex."

"I'm sure I'll manage to say more inopportune things than that before I'm out of the woods, don't worry about it."

Lucien has no idea how to interpret that!

"Because I am having a hard time shutting up so if I run out of appropriate things to say I will probably still say something."

"Oh that makes sense and sounds rather uncomfortable to experience."

"Yes I hate it. Though actually when I landed here I was trying to sleep and might go back to trying that soon if you're like, comfy and have your phone and don't mind that according to my mother I talk in my sleep and stuff."

"Uh, yeah if you want me to stay while you sleep I can do that." It's definitely not weird at all. Or at least not weird in a way that should matter right now.