Wow, and hers she bought refurbished four years ago. She'll pick one out, though, and get busy configuring it to her preferences.

With that, they can make the final leg of their trip to Lucien's parents' place. At which time Lucien is promptly buried in hugs.

"Hi! Sorry, it's been a while since we've seen Lucien. You must be May - I'm Iphigene," greets Lucien's mom when she has finished her initial go at catching up on hugging her son.

"Yes, I'm May. It's nice to meet you. How, uh, caught up are you?"

"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.

"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."