...guiding feels nice. And Haru is very pretty. Especially when he smiles.

Haru gets backlashed pretty quick this way. He zooms straight up away from the water and then coasts down at a slight angle back to the "skimming" height. "The trick with flying," he says, audible over the chilly wind with the benefit of esper hearing, "is that I shouldn't be flying the whole time I'm doing it! All my powers work great as contingencies, so it's almost always the right choice to do a very brief burst of flying," up! "and then coast, and trust it to catch me before I hit anything as the mundane momentum takes me the rest of the way."

Oh that is terrifying.

"I-I-I-I s-see." That's the cold though. The shivering. He's not actually scared enough to shiver but he is cold enough to shiver. What the fuck, Canada.

"Are you not bundled up enough? The coat's rated for it but maybe you need a hat? You can stick your hands in my hood if you want."

P-a-t-h-e-t-i-c but also okay he'll do that because more guiding yes. Warmer, too.

"Not used t-to it b-being th-this cold."

"Yeah, Korea's got nothing on Canada cold-wise. And lake effect snow, too! Though I don't know, do you get snow there? Does the ocean dump a lot of humidity on you?"

"Yes to both. We have monsoons." Boy howdy do they have monsoons.

"Do you have snow monsoons or just rain monsoons and, separately, snow sometimes?"

"...are snow m-monsoons a thing? We d-don't have those."

"I don't think they are! But they'd be really something if they existed, wouldn't they? What're monsoons like?"

"Very abrupt. Kind of scarily so, sometimes."

"What, like you go for a walk and it starts dumping buckets on you out of nowhere?"

"Yeah. Like that."

"Are umbrellas any good or do they collapse under the water?"

"Depends on the rain. Raincoats are a b-better idea anyway."

"...okay you look pretty chilly so instead of asking if you're okay with me doing acrobatics I'm just gonna turn around."

"I'm fine."

"You don't super look fine!"

"I can deal." It's just a little cold. He can deal with a little cold.

"Yeah, you probably can, but you're not used to it and you're backlashed, so we're turning around." They are in fact already heading back toward the island.

His reaction to his LITERAL JAILER being assertive like that should not be attraction and yet HERE THEY ARE.

"...what's Korean for flying?"

"Nalda. It's not one of the verbs that use hada."

"I don't see what it would use if it did! Air, maybe? Flying as doing the air."

"Well, exercising is doing an exercise, flying could be doing a flight, or something."