Haru leaves him on the couch asleep once he's sure and hangs out at the kitchen table instead, blogging.

That doesn't wake him.

But he's up after more than an hour and less than two.

By then Ren's slipped in and is peeling potatoes.

Haru's still at the table, frowning at his computer.

Bug pads over to take his hand.

"Hello again. - I think you're gonna have blue eyes maybe."

"What?"  He scrambles to get his phone out of his pocket and at the selfie camera.  "Huh, yeah..."

"Could still go purple or green but I think we can rule out warm colors."

"Huh."  Picture picture picture picture.  "I meant - Julien meant to get more pictures this morning, but the phone was in your room and then I forgot.  They looked really different from before and now, y'know," he yawns, "that's even more true."

"I didn't get progress pictures at all, I wasn't even aware mine'd changed for a couple weeks. Do you think you want your hair to recolor or nah?"

"Not really, but I also didn't want the eyes very much..."

"Huh. I was sorta torn about hair, all the colors I would've liked aesthetically would've been too dark to really do the obvious-esper-look thing. Ultimately you don't pick though."

"We are not very big on the obvious-esper-look thing but maybe we'll chill out about it later.  ...Julien's not big on it.  I haven't bothered figuring out a separate opinion."

Shrug.

"I guess I'm not really - imagining myself needing to interact with people very much.  And that's most of what he minds."

"Minds being visibly an esper to people?"

"Yeah?  It sounds kind of awful."

"Huh. Why?"

"It's... like when we met in the dungeon."  (Is this secrets?  No, this is just the correct way to act.)  "Julien tried to take up as little of your time and attention, until it came out that you wanted conversation, and then he tried to be as convenient as possible in a different way, because - other people mostly don't do that, I think.  Maybe I'm wrong but it kind of seems like being an esper is like doing customer service, except that instead of physical objects and politeness and sometimes subservience, the thing everyone wants from you is - well, it's that people want things from you, all the time.  I was going to say, 'to be your friend', and I think that's also probably true a lot but it's maybe less the thing that everyone wants from you."

"In a dungeon the thing they want is mostly to be rescued, which is why I go in there in the first place."

"Right, but if you have the obvious esper look then you have to take steps to not have this happen everywhere."

"That's true. I'm not sure I'd mind it but at any rate I can go stealth."

"Yeah, you're also, uh, advantaged.  Backlashily."

"...eh."