From the way she's smiling at him, she really doesn't!

"Are there - things you need to take care of or - want particularly? In a partnership? Oh, uh - and what's your dungeon load like?"

Oh yes. Useful questions. Unlike his gawping like a complete moron.

"I... usually wake up around seven, and I do between two and six dungeons a day depending on how big they are, but most days I do three or four. I like to study dungeons the day before I go into them, and review them just before going out. I've been soloing dungeons since my last partner and I broke it off, and I used to solo some anyway when I went into dungeons without him."

That sounds like so much backlash to offset power testing eeeeeee.

"Okay!" she agrees brightly, not having any real perspective on how insane that schedule is. "I - obviously don't have a dungeon schedule of any kind, yet, but I can absolutely just match backlash as best as I can to what you're doing to get you back down quickly? To, I mean, degrees of safety, my backlash is deadly and I would not like to end up in the hospital, but. I have absolutely been bravely holding back on powers testing basically since I awakened."

She's SMILING at him again aughhhhhhh.

"Yeah. Okay. So if we're—not signing right now, so—wanna do some power testing?"

DOES SHE EVER.

"Yes!! Though let's get a copy of the contract sent to my lawyer first but otherwise - yes."

Yeah that takes forty-five seconds and then—for something like fire they'll probably want the one with the tall ceiling and ventilation fans... "Oh, do you have access to the commlink?"

"Oh, uh, no, I don't."

"Oh. ...do you want it? I mean, you'll get it as soon as you join any guilds but we all use the same system so it might be useful to get it ahead of time?" He slides his right index and middle fingers down in front of him to summon the holographic screen to demonstrate.

"Uh - eventually, but it - requires an implant, right?"

"Yeah but there's a little box that can do it automatically on the tip of your finger, if you want."

"Mmmm, I'll pass for now, I already have a - temperature tracking implant, and I'd want to make sure the systems make nice? And, er, vet things properly before they go inside me."

...... oh no oops that sounded so dirty.

yeah it sure did

"That's fair. I just, uh, can't loop you into the teleport without it."

"Oh. Is it particularly far? Because we could just, er. Walk there if it's in the building."

"It's not in the building, the building is mostly offices. There are a couple of gym rooms underground that are rated for some kinds of powers but for something that could explode we have something offsite."

"... There's no option to teleport with you if you're holding my hand or something??? Hm." But power testing!!!! But she's got such a good streak of being reasonable and responsible! BUT POWER TESTING. Truly, this is a conundrum.

"We can teleport civilians if we tag them with a rescue doodad. I... am not sure if we're allowed to use them for non-rescues, though..."

"Well that's bad design, people shouldn't have to permanently have an implant in themselves in order to use a teleport, and - wait, I was teleported here without one, how did that work...?"

"...maybe they had Min Woo-young teleport you personally?" That wouild be really inefficient, though.

"There was a little alert on my phone that I agreed to for it? Does he work through those?"

"Oh. No, that'd be the system. But then..." Can he actually ping her from the system?

Yep! Totally can.

...huh.

"Are you sure you don't already have the comms implant? I can see you here." He shows her.

"... Maybe the temperature tracking implant?" she wonders, peering at it. "Is there a way to - have it... also do comms?" Damn it, this is making her look like such a dumbass when it comes to technology, she's looking so stupid in front of her new probably-partner.