"Ice cold, Tae-gun."

He summons a small ice cube next to Si-yeon's neck, small enough that it can easily slide down the back of his shirt.

He lets out a high-pitched noise. "You're pure evil."

Hye-jin giggles, then reaches over for Tae-gun's hand to give it a squeeze. Yes, he is evil, and it's great.

There's the recognisable sound of Woo-young's teleportation and this time it's the man himself who shows up by the entrance, alongside Hana.

Hana: sure is here! As Woo-young's, er, technically date? But really as his partner? Without it being a date, date? She likes weddings, and thinks it's very practical for her to be present when Woo-young is likely to be doing a lot of gratis teleporting, and has positive impressions of everyone present. Other espers, especially from Quasar, usually tend to get it without making it a whole thing, but she's slightly prepared for someone asking awkward questions or assumptions about if she and her partner are dating.

(They are not, is the answer. They are both perfectly happy with this, and in fact the prospect of Doing A Dating kind of stresses Hana out quite a bit, and frankly she's got enough going on. The way things are now is good, actually.)

Also she's bad at smiling, hopefully that is fine.

"There is my favorite new support esper, hiiiiii, I am so proud of your organizational work, I probably can't literally translate your stuff to mine but you're doing so well~!" singsongs someone who has spotted the quiet member of this couple.

?

Ji-woo has learned several things about Hana, and one of them is that she is okay with hugs.

Which is why she is scooped into one by a much shorter and more energetic Ji-woo.

"Also, hi Woo-young," she adds, playfully, around hugging his (very pretty!!!) partner.

Hugs are admittedly nice, as is being praised for doing good work, and Hana doesn't know how to have a facial expression about any of it but... attempts smile?

"Hi, sunbae," Woo-young says, giggling. "How's stuff going? You're looking great."

"Oh, you know. The usual. Poking people all better. Leaving scores of thankful patients in my wake. Excited for any chance to let off steam. Thanks! You almost match up to your pretty, pretty partner!"

Ji-woo's own partner is trailing along behind her, amused.

(Oh noooooooo don't make it weird don't make it weird everything is fine she is not going to be weird to the healer esper she made so much extra work for and kind of arguably inflicted agony upon, and the sensor esper who witnessed all of her terrible self destructive mistakes...)

Tae-gun notices the sudden tension and tilts his head at her.

She's, uh, fine? Don't mind her?? Today is not about her and her damage so if her partner could just ignore it for now that would be great. She's not going to make it weird.

...okay. He kisses her temple and gives her a reassuring smile.