“Cool.” She gets dressed. “In that case I would love to stay for dinner.”

"Cool. Ren's getting Chinese takeout, what should I tell her to throw in for you?"

“I’m a big fan of vegetable lo mein. And spring rolls.”

Text text.

Lucy can help set the table if that’s convenient.

And soon enough Ren arrives with takeout and hands Lucy the spring rolls and veggie lo mein.

Brilliant. Lucy is not going to discuss much of what happened since she and Haru arrived, for obvious reasons, but she can tell Ren all about the dungeon!

Ren is delighted to hear about the dungeon but she's more curious about the civilian applications, she's got a special ed teacher friend who would really like a power like Lucy's some days!

Would Ren like to hear about shrimp colors and ant pheromone trails? Lucy is totally into the idea of helping people with difficulty communicating but hasn’t actually done any yet.

Ren would love to hear about shrimp colors and ant pheremone trails!

They’re so cool! Also she will show Ren the dancing ants video.

"Gracious. You could do animal actors, maybe."

“Maybe. I think that would probably eat more backlash than I want to spend on it, like, short clips for YouTube is one thing, but I think I would mostly rather do dungeons and science. …But you’re right that it’s an option.”

"I think often the animal action is broken up into pretty short segments, but really you've got so many choices."

“I know! I love my power so much!”

Do you want to come to BC? There's... nothing to recommend the town where my dad lives but if you come I don't have to ring my secondary in Vancouver if I get called to a dungeon while I'm out there. I'm really selling this, aren't I

You don’t have to. I’d love to come.

When's your school break, I'll get us tickets

She emails him the dates.

And she gets CC'd on the flight itinerary. It's first class.

Which makes sense when she thinks about it but also wow.

Is first class as nice as everyone says?

You still have to spend the entire time on an airplane but it makes it easier not to get into the habit of ordering teleports unnecessarily.

The person who claimed there was caviar admitted they were joking about that.

It'd be lost on me, you saw how I eat. I can just afford takeout more often now

Yeah. I don’t like to make judgment calls about food I haven’t tried, so I can’t confidently claim that caviar isn’t worth the hype.