May was about to fall back asleep in Ren's arms, and now she is not in Ren's arms, which puts paid to the "fall back asleep" plan.
"Lucien texted us on the ride over - you're thinking about moving in with us to be close for backlash emergencies?"
"Right. If that's okay with you. I can continue to live in Lorica's old bedroom but it's slightly morbid."
"We're still talking about it - is it particularly important that it be the same place rather than an apartment across the hall or something of that nature?"
"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.
"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."
"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."
"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."
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.
"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.
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.