May wants 4.5 hours of sleep, apparently.

He can stretch patrol schedule for three hours, after which he tries sleeping himself, waking up seconds later after his power chooses to have him start to relive his memories of the Leviathan fight in crystal clear detail.

What if he tries reading Utopia instead of that. 

Eventually May wakes up, stretches a little bit without letting go of him, yawns. "- thank you."

"No problem."

"I need the bathroom. If you would be up for - reading to me through the door or something."

"Sure."

She waits till he's got a good head of steam and wants him to walk her all the way to the door to the bathroom and then needs a minute to psych herself up and then she manages to go in alone.

He can read! It is really the least he can do.

She opens the door before she washes her hands and once they're washed she's clinging to him again.

Yes she can definitely do that!

"You're being very nice about this."

"I. Uh. It's the least I can do?"

"I... don't think most people would be as accommodating, with most people I'd probably have fallen back on asking for an ambulance."

"...you are really are a lot like Lorica, I think."

"I guess I'm glad I have her reputation to coast on, the most I could expect from a psych hospital in a world that doesn't have espers would be somebody to keep me away from means of suicide."

"Yeah. Um. I'm glad I can do better than that?"

"D'you want to talk about her or do you want to definitely not do that?"

"I... think I'd like to talk about her? If my being sort of sad won't make things harder for you."

"I will probably randomly think you hate me sometimes but that's not you, that's the backlash, and probably if I have a better understanding of - whose reputation I am coasting on here - I will remain through those periods more confident that I can regardless still lean on you for company."

"I really extremely don't hate you."

Lucien can relate how Lorica had Tinker powers and how by default most Tinker would end up in combat but she was planning on leaving heroing to make a ludicrous fortune in private industry and this was in fact a much more reasonable plan. And about how her particular Tinker power was so cool and exciting and she even figured out a way to use his trench carving power to do fast high quality microchip etching which is an objectively better use than the default one of massive property damage.

He has a complicated look on his face as he relates all this - not purely sad but nowhere near happy.

Well, telling her he doesn't hate her doesn't help but she's leaning into touch-starvation as hard as she can anyway since he's so cooperatively cuddly. She has very Lorica-ish questions about Lorica.

It is a very confusing set of things, her being so Lorica-ish and also so cuddly! 

"So you - don't know what she looked like, I guess, since you recognized me by voice."

"Yeah you sound like her but Canadian."

"Lorica wasn't her real name, presumably, it was a codename?"