“—Okay, uh, I know—that the, um, fiction, I’ve read, about espers, isn’t accurate, but—you are in fact just talking about being around her and hugs and so on, right?”

WHY IS THIS HIS LIFE "That is all I mean to imply, yes. Like, maybe without our shirts on but I can be professional about it especially while she can't talk."

“Sorry! I don’t know you and I’m concerned for my daughter.”

"Yeah, sorry, I know, this is kind of weird for me too. We will probably be chaperoned by my talking monster cat much of the time, because the guiding will work better if I'm backlashed and my cat's job is to have conversations with me when I'm backlashed if nobody else is available and she can't talk."

“Thanks. When she can talk, tell her I love her and I’m glad for her and/or will be at the end of the week.”

"And you are okay with authorizing the hospital to release her to me? Do I need to know anything about like, dietary restrictions, meds she's on, anything like that?"

“Yes, I can do that. Uh, she doesn’t take anything regularly, unless she started a multivitamin recently or something.”

"I can ask her roommate, she's the one who emailed me. Can I get you to send a text to my work number so I don't have to keep stealing Lucy's phone if I need to contact you again? I - uh - my cat will give you the number as I presently cannot -" He holds the phone down where Cricket is and Cricket does that. "Is there any other contact information I should have?"

She takes down the number. “I’ll put my email and landline in the text.”

"No other family or anything? What time zone are you in?"

“She has a brother but I’m going to want to talk to him about this before I send you his contact information. I’m in Saskatchewan.”

"Okay, I'll try to avoid calling too early. I'm gonna hand Lucy's phone to the nurse now for the release thingy, okay?"

“Okay.”

Lavinia gives the nurse the release stuff and the nurse does the relevant paperwork and could he bop a handful of other probably-not-espers while she does that, just to be on the safe side, they’re over there.

Yeah, sure, he can pick up Lucy and carry her around to tap people. None of the rest of 'em are espers.

And... then he is going to take off his shirt in the hospital lobby, stuff enough of it into his jeans pocket that it'll stay put, and fly home, Cricket close behind and chattering about Better Off Ted.

The hospital staff don’t let anyone take pictures of the shirtless esper while inside the building but it’s up to him to be invisible after that.

He can't make Lucy invisible so, nah, people can see him flying around, it's fine. He's going pretty fast, though, anyone who wasn't already trying to take a picture of something above their heads won't get a very good shot. Wow, Better Off Ted sounds like a fun premise but the romantic interest character seems really boring.

WHOAH HIGH UP BETTER CLING EXTRA HARD TO THE COMFY THING TO AVOID FALLING.

- okay he doesn't want to scare her, he can slow down and hold her tighter and see if that helps? And if it doesn't he can get an Uber but he's not sure how to convince her to wear a seatbelt.

She’s going to cling extra hard but you know what the view from up here is REALLY COOL, she’s good.

Oh good. He knows she's not panicky about heights in general, he flew her in the dungeon. And the flying will make the guiding work better. And maybe he should find a compilation video of crucial Portia deRossi moments in the show, sounds like she delivered a good performance.

This is really cool! Pity she can’t control the flying thing… unless she can somehow? She has vague recollections of how airplane wings work…but she can’t see any wings on this thing, and if she can alter its trajectory and she fucks it up, this probably results in crashing.

But she does want to know if she can do it.

She experimentally reaches up and pulls on Haru’s ear.

- he laughs, but as long as he can still see where he's going it doesn't affect their trajectory at all.

Oh, so that action makes a noise! This is not super interesting, Things make Noise like, all the time. Well, it's not surprising that she couldn't alter trajectory by tugging on that, it was too small to be a wing. And it's not, like, moving, so it can't be like the small-wing-things at the back of an airplane. The middle one is called a rudder maybe? Not important. 

Eventually he lands at his house. If he sets her down will she stand and be led inside?

Yep! If he attempts to lead her by the hand she will ignore this in favor of continuing to Hug, but she is competent to move while hug.