How's she doing?

I'll update you when she wants to make more known.

"I'm really happy she's alive..."

"I think the thing that's confusing me is that I've made progress with grieving her and now that progress is undone and my emotions don't know what to do about that."

"I was assuming I'd never get to meet her and now I could but it sounds like she... doesn't want to? Maybe she had a really rough awakening?"

"Maybe..." He is not backlashed so he can reason that actually he probably isn't at fault here. Unless she blames him for her death... which probably isn't the case. 

"Could be she missed her parents?"

"I mean, if I could go home I'd want to tell mine I'm okay - if she'll talk to me at some point I'll maybe want to ask her to do that for me - but I don't know, this just isn't a very - lively - posture - I guess she could be backlashed and we wouldn't know what that was doing to her."

"If it was your backlash she'd be want to see us more, wouldn't she?

"Yeah, but maybe it's not, why would it be the same?"

"Related capes generally have similar powers here, though not always and I guess this might not hold for espers?"

"But she was a tinker and her dad's a 'mover' - I guess now she's also a mover?"

"Yeah, her prior power was something of an exception to the rule. Possibly there was a way that were related that just isn't obvious - that happens sometimes."

"Well, I hope she's okay."

"Yeah."

Cuddle. Also, he'll send Rete a message to let Lorica know he's around to catch up if she wants and that he's happy she's back.

She says there is a you in the esper world. The power and backlash seem to match.

"I'm calling it Guide."

"I like you enough that I won't even complain that you are messing with the Hebrew lettering system."

Huh. I guess that's not harder to believe than Lorica and May. IDK if she's up to talking but I'm curious if there were any other doubles - I'm guessing my parents would also be there if I was?

"Lorica says there's another Lucien in the other world, same power and backlash too."

She believes they match based on her recollection of your parents, yes.

Anyone else?

Aside from historical figures one would presume implied by e.g. the existence of the United States she did not detect any.

Okay. Let me know if there's anything I can do for her?

She will want to double-check that you are compatible with her at some point but it is not urgent.

"...which means she's not backlashed."

Okay.

"Uh. Is that going to be weird for you - if I am compatible?"

"Uh - hm.

"So, taking that literally, no, not at all, you're certainly compatible with dozens or hundreds of people who aren't me even if you don't know about it yet.

"Taking it less literally... if I'd finished out awakening at home, I would have done some work on my personal approach to sex'n'romance to make it work better with being an esper, on the assumption that I would need to shop around, might need several partners, could not assume that espers whose backlashes complemented mine would necessarily be particularly exciting to be around on a personal level, etcetera... and instead I awakened with you... so I did not do that. I still can? If it's important?

"And... on this topic...

"...Lorica didn't grow up with espers being a thing and presumably got blindsided by what I'm now assuming was a catastrophically bad awakening and I'm not sure she would like to do some kind of, I don't know, time-share arrangement. Besides, maybe she got on well with the Lucien from Guide and would rather stick with him partnerwise. Though I'm... sort of tentatively guessing that they do not get on as well as you and I do."

"I do not expect to actively want to guide anyone who isn't you though if it turns out Lorica doesn't have the other Lucien or someone else as an option I... I guess I might want to see if a time-sharing arrangement could work? If you were up for it."