Oh, that's good. Want me to tag you beforehand?

I won't have a way to signal you, will I? So that would only make sense if I were planning to come back whether I needed to or not.

You can tap someone in a specific pattern and I'll sense it.
You're not planning on coming back?

I can't take passengers so I can't exactly evacuate the place wait no

I can't take passengers but you maybe can

Seems likely!

I'll need to think about that, what's your bandwidth

Depends on whether you are interested in guiding me? Though it won't be enough to evacuate entire cities even if you are, I think.

Give me a range?

Somewhere from thirty seconds to five minutes per rescue?

I don't mean time per person, I mean people per day, with or without me being on your end for guiding.

Maybe a couple hundred without you, a thousand with you? I'm just guessing though.

Well then I guess at some point we should have some kind of relationship conversation. Though possibly not till I've caught up with my original Lucien.

Oh. Up to you? Normally I would assume you didn't want a relationship with me anymore but I've kind of had it hammered into my head that I can't trust my instincts about you disliking me.

I am from a foreign planet where, when everything is going according to plan, relationship conversations come before and are in many circles even a prerequisite for spending lots of time making out. It can wait till you're not burned out or whatever though.

I am not actually certain that my being burned out won't help with a relationship conversation if you are up to it.

Why would that be?

I've been told I am excessively likely to take things as signs someone doesn't like me and right now I am only going to do that if you're pretty explicit about it.

fair as far as it goes but I think it would not be conducive to my decompressing if you conspicuously don't give a shit about having hurt me.

Yeah that's reasonable, we can talk later than.

I think I want to go home sooner than that. I'm gonna get my danger suit and come over for a tag, OK?

and I'll tap someone in some pattern to communicate whatever short list of things I might need to.

Okay by me.
Also uh, just so you know - I do care about having hurt you, I'm just having trouble acting on it since I spent so long being told by my support not to act on backlash that was blaming me for everything that happened to you during your awakening and now I'm still adjusting back to being able to trust my thoughts about that sort of thing.

yeah it makes sense, just, timing.

Lucien can help come up with what meanings she might want to send.

Mostly they just need "arrived safely, will return home under my own power eventually probably" and "pull me back" and maybe "pull this person I'm tagging back".

They can figure out patterns for those.

"Um. Good luck."