Reading reading pasting typing.

And then a diversion back to Haru's blog; does anything come up if he types 'travel' into the search bar?

Teleporters and the logistics of esper deployment! Are tourists at elevated dungeon-kidnapping risk, looks like maybe a little bit! Case study: dungeon that appeared in the Baltimore-Washington International Airport!

First one!

Teleporters are a thing. They all work slightly differently. Only some of them are capable of doing logistics to get specialized espers to unusual or urgent dungeons across meaningful distances; they're triaged pretty ruthlessly for that reason. Better for fifteen people to wait six hours in cells for an esper to get there in a car or a helicopter than for thirty people to wait even two hours in a twice-returned torture dungeon. Here's a list of teleporters who do meaningful logistics work all over the world and the thresholds for their involvement and which people they teleport most often.

Okay, so it's not out of the question that he could get sent out to the coast sometimes if he gets something really important.  It probably won't happen but it won't not probably happen that much less than all this other stuff.  Though maybe he should try and switch to homework after pizza, because the chance of him failing out of school is way higher than any of this and he can probably make it feel almost as urgent.  That's assuming that his notes are coherent.  He thinks they are, but then he would, wouldn't he, otherwise he would have written them differently.

Pizza comes out of the oven. It doesn't set off the smoke alarm. Haru slices it up with kitchen scissors and plates a couple slices for Julien and a couple for himself.

"Thank you."  He'll close his laptop to eat; it's polite.

Haru doesn't close Les Mis to eat.

Then it will take Julien the duration of both slices to work up the ability to say:  "Um?"

"Hm?"

"When are you going to want to shower?  Now that I have swim trunks."

"Before bed tonight?"

"Okay."  Another slice.

...And then yeah, back to his laptop.  What's his homework looking like oh right that.

Haru puts the dishes in the dishwasher when they're done with the pizza. His phone reminds him to brush Cricket, who enthusiastically purrs through having absolutely ludicrous amounts of fluff combed from his coat.

That's cute.  Chemistry chemistry math math math.

Season Three of the Wire punctuated by naps.

Les Mis is a loooong book.

Julien's homework is not as long as Les Mis and his focus is worse than Haru's.  For that, at least.  How much first aid can he learn online.  Quite a lot, it turns out!  And it's much better at keeping his attention.

Haru glances over now and then and - this is probably Julien's equivalent of brushing up on French and learning Tagalog, okay.

The fact that once he finds and starts drilling anki decks on emergency preparedness he gets better at them is pretty decent evidence that any work he does like this is not completely useless.  He'll switch back and forth between this and brief attempts at homework at least until Ren gets home.

Ren comes home after work and lesson prep and her book club and sets about making black bean chili for dinner.

Nice.  And she's still not going to let him do anything to help?

"No, dear, you sit with Haru, I've got it."

"Okay.  Thank you, Ren."

He's being ruuuuude and now he can't concentrate on his deck let alone his homework.  Of course, maybe he's also being rude by insulting their hospitality, when he keeps trying to do things they don't want him to.  That seems maybe more applicable to the level of guest who's there for a single meal than to putting him up (and putting up with him being crazy) for a week, to him.  But he could be wrong.  This is just another case where all of his options - no.  This is another case where all of his options feel bad, because he's crazy.  But how does he disentangle which one is actually correct...

Four minutes later and very quietly:  "Haru?  Does she really not want me to help?"

Thank goodness for esper ears. "...I think she'd accept help if you were here for practically any other reason but under this circumstance she wants you on the couch with me."