"Okay, in the absence of any principle according to which to make the decision I call big spoon, I guess."

"Okay," he agrees easily. Into bed, then.

Spoon!

Feels like nothing with the bracelet on, of course.

"I can't fall asleep while sitting with June - can't abide by her various protocols while I'm out - and I'm pretty sure she can't either. Sometimes I have stayed up so late so I can be conscious till four in the morning till we're done. So this is nice and practical."

"And guided sleep is really very good. Uh—key?" He's braced. He's so braced. Taking the bracelet off will suck but it's an experiment and they can figure out how much and maybe he can teach Korean while it sucks.

Also maybe if he's backlashed he will be distracted from this erection he's starting to get.

"Here you go."

Click.

...oh the erection got worse. Obviously. Because he's being guided. And there is an incredibly hot guy hugging him from behind, and he's been a complete dick to this guy 100% of the time, and also this guy is his jailer, and he really needs to think about something that isn't the feeling of guiding or the feeling of his dick or the self-loathing accompanying them. "Well, this is survivable."

"Oh good, if it weren't we would definitely be doing it wrong. What's Korean for 'guiding', does it differ between verb and noun forms?"

"The noun form is jido, which also means 'map' and 'leadership', and for the verb form you add the action verb hada to the end, so jidohada. We occasionally use the English-inspired gaiding, though, and add hada at the end for the verb form, too."

"Weird, I always thought that 'guiding' must be some kind of etymological path-dependent bullshit because it doesn't really have most of the paradigmatic features of any nonmagical thing also called guiding. How many common verbs are just something-hada?"

"Lots. To exercise is undonghada, to cook is yolihada. The verb hada by itself just means to do, so you are doing the thing a noun is or something."

"So yoli is presumably food?"

They can go on like this till one of them falls asleep. If it's Haru, then Jaeha will be treated to Random Nouns.

Yeah Jaeha will not be the first one to fall asleep. If nothing else he didn't do a physically strenuous job today, but also he was still uncomfortably aware of the attractive man spooning him even while he drifted into an almost trancelike state of teaching vocab. Now that that's over, it's just the attractive man and his thoughts.

Fuck, he hasn't jerked off in forever.

He's such scum. His jailer. Jailer. Remember that. Not friend, definitely not fuck buddy, not someone he should be having these thoughts about at ALL. Even though the saying random nouns thing is SO CUTE.

And he can't go jerk off because he's certain that the minute the guiding stops his boner will die, and then he'll just be left feeling disgusting and perverted.

This is going to be... a very long night.

In that case Haru is likely to be the first one up in the morning. He is going to attempt to get up and go to the bathroom without waking up Jaeha.

Jaeha slept extremely lightly, and had a constant stream of dreams ranging from uncomfortable to nightmarish, so he jolts awake when Haru moves.

"- hey, sorry, do you need the bracelet? I gotta pee."

"...it's fine. Go ahead."

HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THAT KINK AUGH

"Be right back."

He finishes climbing over Jaeha and goes.

Aaaaand as expected with the feeling of guiding goes everything positive about the current situation, leaving him only a mixture of upset and ashamed and angry and some other, unidentified emotion coiling deep in his stomach and making him feel nauseous.

Haru's back a couple minutes later and hops back into bed when he sees that Jaeha hasn't put on the bracelet.

"How are your guiding levels?" he asks once Haru's back. "I assume zero'd?"

"Yes, I'm all better, though if you want to bundle up and go outside for a flight over the water and get a bit more in I wouldn't turn you down."

"...you don't have the rest of your day to get to?"

"Don't have time-dependent plans today, no."

"Then I suppose flying would be expedient." There's something else that'd be even more expedient but he could also instead just chop his dick off, that'd be expedient too.

"Cool! I don't get to fly all that much, I can't do it alone for more than a second or two without it starting to suck and even if I bring Cricket I need to quit after not too long."