"I guess that's of a piece, yeah, Uber it is." ....... he stares at his phone for a minute and then pokes it and says, "Call Paula." It calls Paula.

Sure?  Does he seem to need to participate in this in any way.

Doesn't look like it. There's two rings and then Paula picks up.

"Paula! Guy I took out of a dungeon the other week is awakening after all, thank you for relaying the call."

"No problem, do you want to make a regular thing of it?"

"Eh, maybe if they pay me, this was a real fluke. Anyway he's pretty compatible, not as much as June but, like, awakening is so much worse than what I left her with."

"Okay, so I should clear your schedule for the week?"

"And a vacation day after, thanks, I can sit with June some on the vacation day but I'll be hanging out at zero while I do it, please apologize to Casey for me so he can tell June in... whatever way they do things. And I need an Uber summoned to TGH to bring me and the guy to my house."

"Sure thing sure thing."

"Thanks, Paula."

"You want me to stay on the line?"

"Should be fine, I've got company and I'm ticking down."

"All right, Uber in two minutes, I'll text you the picture of the car."

"Thanks!"

"I know this call was for more than that, but in the future if you want me to do stuff like summon Ubers on your phone, I can do that.  And narrate it."  Mostly this is practical although it sure would be dramatic for a horrific reveal to happen via Traceless talking about him but not to him in front of him, and way less so for a scary piece of information to show up on a phone that he himself was controlling.  ....He thinks.  Anyway it's mostly practical.

"I don't expect it to come up but I appreciate it. Are you also going to be worried about me dropping you if I carry you to the exit, would you rather walk?"

"- Only if we take any stairs?"

"I'll take the elevator then, no worries." He carries Julien out to meet the Uber. They can hold hands in the back but it's not as good as snuggling.

Technically there's no reason Julien couldn't buckle himself into the middle spot, but also prrrrobably he should exercise at least a little willpower about the drugs, to the extent that he has the ability and excuse to do so.  "I'm - really hungry.  And also still thirsty."  And if he takes his hand off Traceless's to gesticulate about that, he will - flinch, wow, that's incredibly aversive.  Back his hand goes, thank you showrunners message received showrunners.  "I haven't eaten since yesterday morning."

Traceless releases his hand without resistance and takes it back instantly when it is replaced. "...why haven't you eaten since yesterday morning?"

"Just a busy person, I guess.  It's college, you know how it is."

"........okay, uh, do you need to call school, too?"

"It's spring break!"

"Well, that's convenient then. We have food at my house, what do you eat?"

"Y'know, stuff.  I will want to shove some snacks into my face as soon as possible, and then I can look around and see what you've got to cook?"

"Sure. I haven't practiced cooking in continuous physical contact with another person for a few years but I at least have proof of concept."

Noooo but he wants the excuse to not be touching him even though he also desperately desperately wants to keep touching him.  "We shall see!  - Do you have a real name?  That I should learn?"  It may or may not match whatever the real Traceless's is but it's just going to be awkward within this context to keep calling him that.

"I'm Haru. I don't go that hard on the secret identity thing but don't proclaim it from rooftops."

"I won't."  He is going to stay so far away from all the rooftops.  "Hi, Haru."

"Hi, Julien. So besides food and water anything you're gonna need?"

"I can't imagine so!"

"That's very low maintenance of you. Uh, a thing to know about psychological backlash, it's often a little flexible, not like you can think around it but you can think the same total amount of it into slightly different shapes, did you already know that?"

"No, I didn't."

"I have a post about it, it's one of the first ones I wrote after awakening, I've got three flavors and only one of them risks me wanting to kill myself so I have to really stay on top of that."

"I didn't get a chance to read a lot of your posts yet.  Barely any of them, really."

"Well, I guess it's both more relevant to your life now and not competing with anything else you'd otherwise been doing, but you can do whatever, obviously."