"Well, this is important, and anything I can do to do it faster..."

"And sustainably, don't forget sustainably."

"Importantly also that, yeah.  Gwuh.  I'm kind of worried about coming off as a crazy person to humans who only care about humans.  And like, failing to accomplish things because of that."

"Like the... dungeon equivalent of a militant vegan or something?"

"Kind of exactly like that, yeah."

"Maybe research animal rights movements and evaluate by - legibility to genpop, and try to formulate analogies?"

"Good thinking."  He types a note to that effect.  "...Do you think I should also have a blog?"

"I like it, I don't know if it's for you. You could write guest posts maybe."

"Maybe the thing I want is like... a database website.  For all the things I learn about dungeons.  Or something like a wiki."

"Might want to familiarize yourself with what's there already but it's not super browseable - I'm not sure if it needs to be replicated whole cloth or if it just needs some kind of user friendly wrapper though."

"I might want a place that's for just my stuff, even if I let other people incorporate the information into their existing work.  Like, I don't want the official science people to.... I want that to be separate from things that are more memorial shaped.  Those don't seem like they should be together."  Fidget.  "Not that I necessarily want to publicize those, but.  I might; I don't know."

"Legit. Sounds like maybe not a wiki, though, the point of those is kind of to mix a lot of contributors' stuff."

"Yeahh.  I just mean, a thing that's more like entries than like posts, I guess?  Maybe they aren't structurally different."

"The 'pedia part not the wiki part," Haru suggests.

"I can't believe you would say that when I can't kiss you because you're driving."

"I could pull over!"

"Ha."  ????  Is he serious?  Wow.  It's strange to consider the idea that someone could like him - or importantly like kissing him, it's different - enough to do that.  He wonders - he does NOT wonder whether it's a joke, actually.  "Are you serious?"

"I will abruptly become serious if you want me to be but I was not all that serious to begin with."

"Cool.  I'm actually pretty hungry and think we should get where we're going."  And then once they eat they can have sex probably.  And then he can go off and cry or whatever about the dungeon.

"Aye aye."

And presently they are at Haru's house. "You seem to be improving on the not accidentally trying to read my mind front."

"...I think I was mostly really distracted.  There haven't been a large number of near-misses that I'm silently handling well."

"Yeah, but - you could imagine being distracted resulting in more slips instead of less and it doesn't, apparently, so that's nice?"

"Yeah, that could definitely be worse.  It comes out of a pretty specific emotion.  Although, one that's often downstream of anxiety, so.  Bad.  With the backlash, probably, if the thing I'm worried about isn't an entity I want to read."

"...I hope you don't find me worrying when I'm really backlashed, then, that would get dangerous for both of us."

"Yeah.  That's why I want to do a practice run with no backlash, is, most of the times this have come up so far are.  They're related to navigating a new physical relationship.  - And it's going to be really, really important that I never become afraid of you."