"Well, I don't know, but emergencies emerge and aren't always foreseeable."

"Mm, I'm worried this'll result in you hurting someone on accident because you think something is an emergency when it isn't, or it is but you're not thinking clearly enough to help instead of hurt someone."

"I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone..."

"Mm, I think some of the reasons you don't normally donate blood twice in one day are because it could hurt people and I'm worried about how you can't guess those reasons."

"The blood is totally fine!"

"Mmm, the blood being bad isn't the way I'm worried you could have hurt people."

"If it's really fun to confuse me I guess you can keep doing it?" she says plaintively.

"I'm not trying to confuse you, what part of that was confusing?"

"You're saying that isn't the answer you're fishing for but you aren't telling me what you do want me to say instead."

"I'm not fishing for an answer - I can tell you how I think you were making a mistake earlier if you'd like?"

Blink blink.

"Lorica are you... aware of what your preferences are about things?"

"...what my preferences are about things? I can... remember my usual Chinese takeout order, if that's the kind of thing you mean..."

"That helps. Do you understand why it was your usual Chinese takeout order?"

"Not exactly, no."

"Mmm... so that's a second thing you're having trouble reasoning about while you're awakening." And a complicated one given that it means she probably isn't capable of meaningully consenting to a lot of forms of guiding.

"I could guess if you want me to?"

"If it's not stressful that would be good."

"...why only if it's not stressful?"

"Because I don't want to stress you out unnecessarily."

"...why?"

"Because I value you having positive experiences and not negative ones."

"The thing where you're touching me is a positive experience," she reports after a few moments to piece this together.

"Yeah uh, we should probably have more skin contact since it will help with your backlash."

She has grabbed the hem of her shirt by the end of the first clause and then stopped in confusion about the second.