Is May checking for a response? There's a sensation to being read that she'd feel if May was.

Yes, she has absorbed the explanation of how the telepathy works.

[Oh, you didn't did you. Well, I'd say nice to meet you except I'm not sure whether the circumstances are all that nice. I'm happy I got summoned by you rather than someone else, at least.]

She is going to start stepping through a fairly short series of moves - footwork punctuated by swings and strikes.

[Would you have shown up for Ivan or would he have gotten somebody else?]

[I don't actually know.]

And now she can repeat the same steps, but faster.

[What other kinds of appropriateness are there besides the similar set of values kind?]

[People who might be friends, a champion who fulfills some need of the summoner, someone the summoner would like to be in control of.]

Another repetition, much faster than the last two.

[I don't think very highly of this system.]

[Neither do I.]

The repetitions are now beyond the speed a human could do - it's hard to track what she's doing all that closely.

[That's really cool looking.]

[Thanks!]

She can go faster! At a certain point she's a blur and May can feel the occasional breeze and hear a quiet humming.

[Can all spirits or champions or whatever you are do this?]

[Nope!]

The humming getting a bit louder is the only sign Lianelle has gotten even faster before she stops, sweaty and breathing heavily. 

[Can they do other similarly impressive things? - how do I un-tire you?]

[Yeah - well, I prefer what I can do but they often have their own tricks. Champions vary a lot - they don't have to look human, for example. Try intending to untire me with your bond? I'm not sure.]

...abracadabra???

Apparently that can do the trick! May can feel a small portion of her magic, which she apparently has a new sense for, draining away. She could do this more than a dozen times probably, but less than a hundred.

"I think that was less than ten percent of my magic but not by much."

"Seems a bit on the low side but still a lot more than someone who wasn't a summoner would have."

"Fortunately it didn't do anything to my backlash. Or, well, fortunately it didn't make my backlash worse, I guess if it had somehow made it better that would have been cool."

"Yeah, I wish there was a way to help with that."

"I'm trying to get a sense of how fast it's refilling... it took practice with backlash and I guess this might too..."

"Yeah, I think it usually is slow enough that it's not easy to sense it happening without practice."

May nods. "...usually what I'd be doing right after a dungeon would be sitting with June for a while to take the edge off while on the phone with whoever was handy or talking to my cat but obviously that's not happening. And then I'd take a shower, which I guess I can do without needing to ask you to hang out on the other side of the shower curtain since we can have telepathic conversations. And then I'd change clothes, which I can't do at the moment so maybe the shower can wait... how long does the tournament usually last? Is there a specific location for it or is it just wherever one finds oneself?"

"They last days to weeks. You can't get too far away from the Spring when the tournament is ongoing but other than that it's wherever one finds themselves."