"Uh, sort of depends on your standard for 'particularly'. If we wind up using our powers a lot - our esper powers, I mean - it'll be most convenient for us to sleep in the same bed so we can catch up on backlash overnight if we don't get it all before we want to sleep."

"Well, I'm sure we can work something out."

And there can be dinner! With Lucien being mortified when conversation turns to whether he and May would be moving too fast in their relationship by having May move in.

"Well, we did just spend a week living on a boat together."

"A week seems different than sharing a permanent residence, I think? There was a fixed end date to that one which meant it could only go so badly."

"If it goes badly here I can go back to Lorica's place, at least on a temporary basis."

"Temporary how?"

"Until I find my own place or roommates or something."

"Oh, yes, that makes sense. I think if you have a reasonable fallback option and Lucien wants you to move in - which he certainly seems to - we can make it work."

Lucien is going to stay quiet over here being embarrassed about everything.

"I don't like to impose but it really does make the most sense with an esper partnership and we're very unusually compatible as those go, it's not normal to be able to tell at a distance at all, usually people shake hands."

"Well, we're glad you two found each other."

Nod.

With that concluded Arthur wants to know about the study of dungeon economics in her world.

Oh, sure, she can't look anything up right now so a lot of her claims are going to be fuzzy but she can at least give an outline.

That's good enough for Arthur! He has questions that are maybe too specific and can move on to finding out what her hobbies are once that's become clear.

Oh, she mostly likes to read, though she's always also been interested in dungeons and espers and may find herself something of a workaholic if she's coordinating dungeon response for a city and trying to be a model for the whole world.

How is she planning to be a model for the whole world?

"My planet has six decades of dungeon experience and I want it put to use! I can write up what I know but trying it in practice is the only way to test how the approach needs to differ because of capes being involved. - I need a full laptop, I'm going to want a website and Rete can do most of the work for me but I'd like to be able to type posts and stuff."

Lucien has some preliminary thoughts about how to position themselves to get taken seriously by the broadest selection of people! The trick is to balance the presentation of the non-powered operations aspect with the Endbringer truce and cape positioning so as to get taken seriously by both capes and non-capes. 

May would like to know more about the Endbringer truce, how it works and doesn't.

Capes. both villains and heroes, work together and don't take advantage of the Endbringers - on the field or off of it. Anyone breaks it and everyone else teams up against them. It's not universal - Russia and China barely abide by it - but it's enforced in the majority of the world.

How does that play out in Russia and China?

China doesn't show up to outside Endbringer fights or let outsiders help when Endbringers attack them. It has not gone very well for them but they're adamant.

Russia attacked some capes who came to help and the people who ordered that are all dead as well as most of the capes who obeyed those orders. Nowadays Russia plays somewhat nice but everyone is nervous about a possible repeat. 

"Okay, China's deal isn't a huge problem for most dungeons most of the time, they're big enough they should have their own espers in any specialty that other countries wind up importing internationally for - unless they have a smaller population in this world?"

"They're a bit over a billion people but they have fewer capes per capita - the US has a few times and many capes despite being less than half the size."