"Legit. The conditions are regrettable but, yeah, full awakening levels of paranoia backlash unsupervised for eight plus hours while I'm unconscious, not my favorite plan."

"Okay.  Earlier, then.  Should - how's Ren, do you think?  Should I meet her."

"I... have not actually mentioned to her that you've got the dissociated identity thing going on, but I guess you can if you're still here when she gets home."

"Well, should I try not to be before then."

"Is there a particular reason you can't stay for dinner if you're not planning to be here overnight, how does this work."

"I can stay for dinner; I just thought it might be awkward.  ...Then again, I might not - be inclined to tell my mom, if she were around, and just interact with her like normal.  And she knows me better than your mom does, obviously."

"Your call. She'll be chill about it, she's chill about things being weird."

"Then I guess I will stay around for dinner."

"Cool. Last I heard her plan was potato soup."

"With no meat stock."

"I'll make sure she doesn't forget that part." Text text.

Snuggle.

"If you specifically want to take a Bug-nap I could like, extract myself once you fell asleep on the couch maybe?"

"..."

"It might wind up being conspicuous but you managed to get up that one time without waking me so maybe not."

"We could try it."

"Scritches?"

"Iiiiii am - not entirely scritched out by any means but maybe stick to the gentler ones.  Y'know, more like petting than scratching."  He rolls over onto - hm, maybe not onto Haru's lap because then how will Haru escape.  Well, that's what pants are for, and also guiding doesn't work through hair.  But what if Haru wants to escape - "How should I exist?"

"That's such a question. How about I sit on the edge of the sofa and you lie down kinda behind me and then I can see if you're still awake and get up when you're not."

"Mmhm."  Bug flops back out of the way for the shuffle and then curls up around Haru.

Pet pet.

Bugs don't purr but they do apparently sigh happily from time to time.

- And from time to time flinch at varying levels of violence, before very deliberately relaxing again.  Which don't generally seem to match up with anything in particular that Haru's doing.

Probably can't be helped. Pet pet pet.

Indeed not.

But they do stop eventually.