"Yeah, that's - honestly I might be so busy I won't have time or energy for training, just, um. I dunno, my power's really dangerous and I'm a little scared of it." Or a lot scared of it. One of those.

He kisses the top of her head. "We'll figure it out," he repeats, more firmly.

Well that's very soothing, and she makes an affirmative hum, then tucks her head against him for a higher percentage of snuggling in this snuggle-work session.

But soon enough he has to actually go do his dungeon.

"So, um, I'll see you after?" he says as he's preparing to go.

"Yeah. Um - your silo, I guess? You might need to, like, summon me or something, I don't actually know where it... is."

"Oh yeah I should you the address—" He does that. "But I can also request a teleport directly for you."

Nod. "I'll try to get there before you're out of the dungeon without any teleportation, and if you show up to an empty silo you can teleport me? ... I expect I'll be waiting outside, if it's locked or has a passcode or something?"

"It has a passcode, yeah, and I can generate a one-time code, too." He'll do that, too, and also send it to her.

"Okay! Then that'll work fine. And I will studiously try to get there on time without the use of teleports at all, because I should not get into the habit of using those casually." Firm nod, mostly to herself.

She's really cute. He will kiss her for being cute.

And then, yeah, he ought to go dungeon.

Kiss!

With her new partner(!!!) departed, Hye-jin will also get ready for her day. She's got her two meetings, a doctor's appointment and... er, possibly clothes shopping, if she can manage it? She should possibly go clothes shopping. She has one change of clothes and she's wearing it right now, and it's looking like she will be staying in Korea for longer than the two days and one night she prepped for. Relatedly - does the hotel have a laundry service? Yes? Excellent. No she doesn't need it right now, but she expects to sometime later, thank you for your time.

She gets a couple offerings from the already very picked over breakfast buffet downstairs, then starts making her plan of attack on her phone. What route can she take that most efficiently gets her from here to her various scheduled locations, including getting to Tae-gun's silo at approximately the correct time of slightly early, and which parts of this planned route takes her past clothes shopping locations when she's got time to spare for doing the aforementioned shopping? Hmmmmm. She doesn't have a lot of wiggle room in the morning - well, what little of the morning she has left, she sure did do some sleeping in, oops - but the afternoon is looking comparatively free. While the doctor's appointment might take some time, the meetups are unlikely to. Just a quick handshake, and an apology for already being taken now, and then everyone goes their separate ways with compatibility knowledge acquired. Fortunately for her, she picked public places that are pretty close to where she could do some shopping, so really, this is a downright easy problem.

But still a fun one.

When she arrives to Tae-gun's silo, she has managed to grab two skirts, several sets of leggings, and a really cute top that probably fits her, along with enough takeout barbecue for conceivably two people, or enough for just her and some leftovers if Tae-gun doesn't turn out to like either beef rib, any of the sides, or that one vegetarian thing she ordered in a slight panic because she has no idea if he even eats meat. She is slightly winded but feeling so pleased with herself regardless. There has been no cheating with teleportation yet, and she's ahead of schedule on clothes! Ha, she is the queen of efficiency, she's so proud.

Typing in the passcode is a little tricky while carrying her shopping bags, but she can manage it without too much trouble. In she goes, to finally sit down and maybe nibble at some of the available rice balls, because her breakfast was a small one and she's kind of tired. And trying not to overthink what exactly will happen when her partner shows up and how she will probably need calories for this.

Tae-gun's house is very nice. It's two stories tall but not that big, a bit out of the way but still perfectly accessible by public transit from downtown. It's not super cluttered, and it's very very tidy, but it's clearly lived in. There are a couple of pictures on a small table by the sofa, and a book on the kitchen counter—a paper book, not electronic—with a bookmark about two-thirds of the way in. The decoration is minimalistic but has some personality, with glass and white and chrome and a hint of blue, a couple of abstract paintings, and an overall vibe of someone who wanted to live somewhere pretty but low-maintenance.

It's fairly nice, and she likes it, but, hm. ... it could use some plants, she thinks. Minimalism is fine, but can feel awfully cold and sterile, sometimes.

She removes her shoes at the genkan - er, she's in Korea, so it'd technically be the hyeon gwan, whatever, the entryway with a home for shoes - then finds a place to sit on a couch in the living room. Hm. She should probably make sure she's got some backlash to balance out Tae-gun's. Well, she can keep the food warm, and carefully and efficiently go through incinerating the tags on her purchased prizes. It's so nice to not leave little bits of ash around or, oh dear she's not going to set off the smoke alarm, is she, she hadn't even thought of that -!

Well whatever she is doing seems to be of no concern for the smoke alarm!

Okay. Good. Fine.

Note to self for later: practice incineration near smoke alarms so she will definitely not set them off like a dumbass.

...

Is. Is Tae-gun going to get here soon? Did she arrive too early? Did she arrive too late and fail him as a partner on her first actual workday he would have requested a teleport for her if that happened, and she would have just had to live with her failure openly. It's fine. It's fine.

Yep, he is! Here's the teleporting noise and localised light, and he's taking his shoes off, and he's looking around for Kim Hye-jin, she said she'd be here...?

Here she is! Her anxiety about being late is immediately soothed by his entrance. Though she's still a little bit nervous for other reasons. She gives him a cheerful wave.

It feels weird to say okaeri in another person's house, and also she's in Korea, so she'll instead go with: "Hi! I got extra food if you're hungry."

"Oh. Okay."

He can feel her. Guiding him. From that distance. And it is starting to get to his head.

She pops the latest rice ball into her mouth and then gets up to bounce over to him and point her smile at him from a closer distance.

"But no rush! I can keep everything warm. Honestly it's probably better if I do, considering how guiding -"

She takes his hand.

Nope now she has an esper draped all over her making desperate noises and dry humping her.

"- works. Oh, dear. It's okay, I'll help, shhhh, this way..."

She leads him to the couch, and then off come his shirt (and her own, for skin contact) and pants with an impressive level of efficiency. Yesterday she was a blushing shy virgin under his hands, and now she is... not most of those things! Some switch seems to have been flipped in her head to make him clearly her responsibility, and so she's going to very deliberately and very carefully take care of him. With her mouth. And tongue. ... And throat.

It's honestly much easier to systematically work out how to bring him pleasure when he isn't being all... distracting, like he'd been yesterday. Which is all to say she is going to take very good care of her partner, and has the presence of mind to keep their food warm while they're busy. Racking up some backlash while handling his is just being efficient!

Hoooookay if she wanted a partner going deep into subspace for her she's got one. Who needs words when helpless moaning can get him what he needs? The best she'll get is "please" and "fuck" and "Hye-jin".

All excellent words and sounds to make! She approves! He should do it some more! Oooo and she can warm up her hands to up both the backlash relief and the general stimulation, that's a fun trick that earns some lovely noises...