"Mm.... oh, hm. There's an AI that was created by Lorica that might be able to persuade people, or at least Transit, that you are a Lorica? Assuming it can be convinced of this."

"...talking to a robot actually sounds incredibly unpleasant right now but maybe it could just listen to me talking to you?"

"Oh, uh, yeah, I can call it and explain the situation and then put it on speaker while we talk for a bit, if that's okay?"

"Yeah, that's fine, just, like, tell it I am having intermittent issues with believing I'm talking to robots and there are no real people besides me anywhere and accordingly nothing matters, so it should not talk to me."

They are currently flopped on the couch together but Lucien can be hugging her more actually.

Snuggle. "I'm mostly managing to lean away from that but I don't want to try talking to a literal actual robot right now, you know?"

"Yeah that makes a lot of sense. If there is anything more I can do to help please let me know."

"I am low on filter and will probably let you know even if it doesn't seem like a good idea at the time, worry not."

Nod nod.

He can call Lorica's number - last he checked it forwarded to Rete.

"Hello?"

"Hi this is Lucien, I uh..." He pauses for a couple of seconds.

"I can't think of a non-weird way to say this. I have someone who I believe is a variant of Lorica from a parallel universe in my apartment and she is having a mental health crisis related to the way powers work in her world and could use her parent's help with this."

"Why do you believe this?"

"Her voice matches, Tattletale said she was a Lorica, and her personality matches except for mental health crisis related things."

"Did Tattletale elaborate at all?"

"She was not available to comment beyond the person being a Lorica and trustworthy." Lucien is pretty sure his new team doesn't want him telling people when Tattletale is out of commission. Though probably he still would if it helped May. 

(May is gradually tensing up as Lucien talks to the robot instead of to her but she is valiantly not interrupting and just smushing her face ever more firmly into his chest.)

"May I speak to her?"

Huuuug.

"Due to the mental health crisis she is uh. Having issues believing people she's talking to are robots and that there are no real people besides her and that this means nothing matters, and she thinks talking to a robot would exacerbate that. She asked if instead you could listen to me talking to her?" 

"It will require more data in that form for me to draw confident conclusions but not intractably so."

"Okay uh, are there particular topics I should cover?"

"Anything I would have been exposed to Lorica's opinions on will suit."

"Okay, speakering you now."

Rete is politely silent.

"What does it want me to talk about?"

"Uh, anything it has heard Lorica's opinion about. Your life goals a bit seemed relevant to Tattletale maybe that's would be good to talk about more?"