Eventually a nurse is sent to look for Panacea.

"Um. Panacea?"

"Hm?"

"There are some patients waiting..."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to keep anybody waiting." She lets go.

Panacea will sadly return to helping patients then.

Poor sad Panacea.

Chelsea finds a lobby to wait in.

One of the patients with an acid burn hangs out in the same lobby while he waits for May to finish up, trying not to blame himself for this mess.

There's enough people in the lobby that it's not marked for her to sit down right next to him and -

- ooh?

Huh, when their elbows touched it felt sort of like touching May...

"Excuse me?"

"Yes?"

"Uh. Have you by chance had a week of a terrible medical condition recently - or that you're in the middle of I suppose."

"...why do you ask?"

"I think you might be an esper - a new type of cape basically. Um, sorry if that was very terrible for you," Lucien adds, trying to figure out how this is his fault exactly.

"What does it mean if I'm an esper?"

"You have powers, using them generates backlash which is what you have a lot of for a week before you get your new powers. Backlash can be removed by contact with espers, especially compatible espers which I think we are moderately. Though during the initial week there's only so much you can do with guiding."

"...and there's no other way to get rid of it?"

"No. I'm sorry."

"Is that why you're in the hospital, because you have backlash?"

"No I hur-was getting people from a dungeon - an pocket dimension that kidnapped them - and bringing them here using my esper power. I do also have backlash from that so if I seem self-centered or wrong about things that's why."

........she was willing to tolerate some waiting around for Panacea alone. Panacea's eager to be caught, which makes sense considering that Chelsea reached for "sister" and got "lovestruck". This guy she has a short window of time before he becomes less willing to mistrust his observations.

"Are you done with that now?"

"Yeah, I'm waiting for my, uh, partner, to come and pick me up."

"Your partner?" Rummage. - wow.

"Or, uh,  friend. Guiding partner." Possibly he shouldn't discuss his relationship status with a stranger while backlashed.

"When do you expect him?" Come on, correct her.

"Her. Uh, maybe another hour? Or not if she blames me but that's probably backlash."