There's an outfit made from some sort of dark grey soft leather.

"I have some chain mail if you'd like it in addition - proper armor will have to wait."

Lucette is doing her best to don her armored boots by herself, which is proving rather difficult.

"Rachel, would you-" "Of course, my lady." "Thank you."  

They go on much more easily with her maid's help.

"Snazzy," he says of the outfit and the mail, and he does his best to get it on.

It's substantially easier than the complicated too heavy for an umempowered suit that Lucette has, but if he's still struggling with it Rachel can help him with it once Lucette is armored.

He can figure it out, though he'd like a check to make sure he didn't misbutton something.

Rachel can do that then, before heading back to the manor. Lucette and Haru have a different tunnel to head through.

"This one's somewhat long, it will probably be quicker if I carry you?" says Lucette, back to vibrating her voice.

"If you like, though, like, I do run faster than a normal person."

"If it won't tire you out to do so we can do that then, I am not the fastest of empowered."

"It's not usually my physical stamina I run up against in a dungeon - how long will we be out all told?"

"Four hours if we don't see any combat, less if we do."

"I have not tried to do four hours on a treadmill in a kit that weighed this much so maybe to be safe you should carry me, but I can take up going for runs during the day and see what my capacity is."

Scoop.

She can run faster holding him than he can run normally, albeit not by much. It's about fifteen minutes to reach the end of the tunnel, at which point she flies up a section and removes a stone from the top of the tunnel. And then they can fly out (putting the stone back as she does so) and onto a nearby roof.

Can he climb it or is he going to be starting the evening with a couple seconds of flight backlash?

Lucette's perfectly capable of flying him up there herself, albeit after a somewhat difficult takeoff.

And he will follow her out into the night, visible to her but not to anyone else.

They're jumping across rooftops in what she informs him in a whisper is the merchants' quarter.

"Do we have a tip about anything happening here or is it random?"

"Random, more or less. I'm sticking to more densely populated areas that nobles are more likely to visit."

Nod nod roofhop roofhop.

A bright white light shining from a second story window of a three story townhouse catches Lucette's attention from two blocks away.

"That's a signal torch, which means someone there thinks they need help."

"Does it give any hints as to what?" he asks, veering in that direction.

"Unfortunately no - but mostly likely it's because of empowered villains, since commoners are often too scared to light such a signal in less dire circumstances." 

He'll ask why later. In he lopes.

Closer to the building he can see a young terrified woman holding the signal torch up to the window.

Is the window open? Is the door to the house? Does he smell smoke?

No smoke, the window is closed (and too small to fit a person easily), and the door to building is unlocked if he checks.