"I have no idea, because she does not talk to me."

"Oh no."

"In all likelihood it will never come to her attention that I did an emergency dungeon this week at all."

"Okay."  Snuggle?  "Maybe I should," don't say 'send it to her'; you'll sound insane and Haru will - say something, about it - "send her some of the money?"

"She gets paid for being on call whether she is called or not, and she was not called, so the amount she is paid to not be called is the market rate. There is no rational model under which you owe her a cent for her not being woken up in the middle of the night - to, not even sleep through the guiding, we can't do that, we both have to spend the entire time awake."

Oh no Haru said something anyway.  "If you say so."

"- you okay?"

"...................I am awakening," is ultimately what he lands on.

"...yeah. Fair enough. Almost done though."

"Almost done," he echoes.  "...I'm very glad I have you to sanity-check things for me, I just... it's still unpleasant to learn that I'm yet again being insane in some way."

"I'm really glad I was able to get you out of the hospital."

"That would have been so much worse.  If I had stayed there."

Nod nod.

"What if we were back on a soft, comfortable" cuddleable-on "surface."

"Can do." They can! Behold!

Cuddle!  He wraps Haru in a hug and puts an ear on his chest and listens to his heartbeat.  "Do you think I would have been okay ever again if I'd stayed in the hospital?  I don't really know what they actually do in those cases..."

Snuggle snuggle. "I don't know what exactly your standards for 'okay ever again' are or what their exact protocol for suspected awakening psychotic breaks are. I think it would've been worse, how much worse depends on things like how much you were able to break out of the delusional episode under those conditions and what doctors you got and stuff."

"I don't think they really thought I was awakening.  She might have just called you because you were available through me and really mostly wanted to check on someone else.  ...But I guess I have eyes.  That changed color."

"They might even have noticed that, yeah."

"Ugggghhhh."

Pat pat.

...Caaaaaan he get his phone into view while mostly remaining in this position.  Yes.  Okay, time for emergency prep flashcards with a bonus soundtrack of Haru's heartbeat.

It's very relaxing, actually.  Hopefully Haru can hold a book like this because it would be very sad to have to move.

Looks like he can, yes. He resumes reading about the comical torments of Candide et al.

It's not too long before Julien wants to switch positions, because as generally comfortable as this is, it's still not great for facilitating blood flow to his phone-holding arm, but they can probably do this approximate thing until Ren comes home.

Ren comes home with paint on her cheek and sets about making spaghetti with fake Italian sausage.