[Okay.] On some gut level he feels like she won't be back in time to prevent terrible things but he's aware that that's false, which almost helps.

She comes back with a packaged cinnamon roll and peanut butter crackers and a thing of apple juice.

He is a totally normal amount of relieved to see her.

Pet pet. "When you're done with your water I can pour some of the apple juice in your cup."

"That sounds nice." He'll drink the water a bit faster.

And then he can have juice.

Which is apparently the best thing he's ever tasted! Or seems like it is, anyways.

"Do you think you can chew or should I be planning on arranging you a liquid diet?"

"I think I can probably chew?"

Then she will feed him bits of her cinnamon roll.

They don't know where the core is. They've called Columba in to try to find it, but it's going to be a lot of digging through the sand, and in the meantime the dungeon's going to keep taking people. Haru's going to be in and out of it a lot for the next few days, maybe weeks. He needs to pace himself. Shrugging off the amnesia fuckery is pretty cheap, but it's cheap per second, and he has to do it every second he's in there, unlike being invisible to monsters - only costly when there's one looking at him - or flight - only costly when he's hopping over an antlion Isabella warns him about. He bails out eight rescues after finding Lucien, most of which time is spent tromping around in the desert, wearing goggles and a face wrap and leather gloves on top of his regular gear, sweating buckets.

He comms the entrance team - most of whom are not psychically shielded and are just operating on an algorithm that is not expected to change regardless of how many minutes they're in there - and they relay to Lifeline to bring him out for guiding.

Lucien's very thoroughly blindfolded and wearing noise cancelling headphones and has no actual idea what's going on in this dungeon, other than that it took his alternate self (obviously it would) and that it's the sort of dungeon that they have him blinded and deafened for (which it would be, given that he's been taken). Still, he can follow the instructions of his support when they tell him to pull Haru out.

"Hey you. How are you holding up?" Haru asks, nipping the headphones off his partner as soon as he appears and carrying him into the adjacent room.

"Well, I'm worried for my safety but otherwise fine and thankfully ignorant."

They should be wearing less. Haru unloads his gun and stashes it in its transport lockbox and then sets about accomplishing this. "You are going to have to remain ignorant for longer than usual on this one, alas."

"No one's found the core?"

"Not yet. Columba's probably going to be able to." But it's actually really kind of fucking hard to dig through that much sand. But Lucien doesn't need to know that while he thinks he's personally responsible for the placement of every grain of sand in the universe.

"Did you get me out of there yet?"

"Other Lucien is out and Isabella's got him." Blindfold is safe to come off with their shirts. Hugs, good warm guiding hugs.

Hugs....

"Wow, you're really sweaty...I would not have guessed this would be so attractive but apparently it is."

"It's the guiding, probably. Once you're safe to walk through the halls of a hospital we should go silo and take a shower."

"I think it's at least partially that I'm the reason you're so sweaty."

"Also, it might be best for you to walk me through the hospital while I'm blindfolded - not that I actually think that but it's the sort of thing I'm supposed to say when I think that I should have to see what I've done to people."

"We could also hang out in this room a bit longer but the silo's probably the better call." He gets Lucien's blindfold back on and collects strewn possessions and gets them on their way out.

Lucien can lean on Haru in addition to holding his hand if Haru is good with that.