"Now. I can connect to possible perceivers on the phone, it's a classic phone behavior."

“Yeah that’s fine. I’m not making any assumptions about how many observers there are or aren’t, right now.”

"Cool." He calls Lavinia on his own phone. "You're on speaker! Lucy is now aware I exist but it's through circuitous logic going through the fact that guiding implies esper implies that I'm a being capable of perception."

“Lucy! How are you?”

“I…am…fine? Well, no, I’m horribly embarrassed, but apparently that doesn’t count this week.”

"It'd be hypocritical of me to tell you not to be embarrassed but it'd be like being embarrassed about having the flu."

“I tied you to the sofa. The flu isn’t inherently embarrassing.”

“Sorry, why?”

“Well, I didn’t want him to leave, and I had noticed that he moved ever but not that he was capable of observing my actions.”

"Hey, you referred to me in the third person, that's neat."

“Talking to multiple subjects is complicated.”

"How so?"

“Keeping track of which is which is the hardest part. But also third-person pronouns.”

"Well, I think as long as I keep hovering you'll tick down a little from here though probably not a lot, so it might get easier, though I am going to want to stop hovering around dinnertime."

“In twenty minutes?”

"Yup."

“Okay.”

“Be well, sweetheart,” says the voice on the phone.

“I’ll—try?”

"Feel free to get off the phone, just thought this'd be reassuring."

“Would it be obvious why if I were less backlashed?”

"It would be obvious why I said that if you were less backlashed, yes."

Shrug. “Okay. G’bye, phone person.”

Lavinia laughs. “Goodbye. I love you.”

"I'll catch you up if there's more developments," Haru tells Lavinia and hopefully she will hang up because he's been hovering a while and hanging up the phone sucks.

She hangs up very quickly! She has no desire to hear her daughter conspicuously not say “I love you” back.

Being hung up on also sucks but he is a professional. He hovers. He snuggles. "So will jigsaw puzzles work for you or do they have to be three dimensional things?"

“I would like three dimensional things but jigsaws are also good.”

"Are there some in your dorm room?"

“…I don’t think so.”