"Do they get it right?" Nuzzle nuzzle.

Nuzzle. “Not all of them. But overall, more accurate than I would have guessed.” Smooch.

Smooches!

Smooches are great and smooching 💖Haru specifically 💖 is wonderful.

It doesn’t take long after that for Lucy’s new agent to schedule her for Solla Sollew.

Haru's there too. Victims wind up in weirdass places in Solla Sollew, it's a really... creative... dungeon.

"The good news is," he says, when he and Lucy are driving there first thing in the morning, "the monsters aren't that tough. The guys with guns can keep them off you while you do your sensor thing no problem, everything in there goes down to bullets even if the elephants take bigger rounds than the loraxes. So you just sit tight and tell me where I should be going to grab everybody it's kidnapped overnight, and I will go collect them from on top of a pile of turtles or a boarded-up Seuss-architecture tower or a giant glass bottle full of beetles or whatever."

Lucy nods, and reaches out for victims, and also double checks to make sure that the monsters in this dungeon don’t know where the core is either.

There's a victim over there in the oobleck. There's one up a tree in a nest. There's one on the train that runs through half the dungeon. There's one in a pond stuck in the muck. There's one in a cave in the snowy mountainous area. There's one in a cage with a monster in a circus tent.

Also, this Sneetch has a pretty good view of the core, inside one of the Seussian contraptions behind all the gears and levers and pulleys and mechanical arms.

“Haru I found the core.”

"- holy shit. Where."

She points and describes the location and distance.

“I checked the monsters and one was looking right at it.”

He checks against their map of this incarnation of Solla Sollew. "In here?"

“Yeah, exactly. A little bit closer to that side than this one,” she gestures, “but only a little.”

"Brilliant." She gets a kiss. "I'm gonna go get that and then grab the victims and then we can take the break and then I'm going to catch a ton of monsters."

BEAM. “Wonderful.”

She’s helping to kill a named dungeon! This is so amazing!

Haru kisses her again and then bounds off down the narrow railingless unsupported stairs that are all over the place in this dungeon and makes for the relevant contraption. The monsters ignore him, of course.

That is so cool.

Lucy starts marking victim locations on the map.

It's good to know there's somebody in the oobleck, they need to bring out the solvents for that and give the victim a gas mask.

Hm! That’s not excellent.

She could make monsters retrieve victims, but she’s assuming that’s a bad idea for trauma reasons?

"It won't help with the oobleck," says the SWAT guy. "The monsters get stuck in it too. The one who's in the circus cage though, maybe that one?"

“Yeah, I didn’t mean the oobleck one.” What’s the nearest monster to the circus cage situation.

The one that's inside the cage with the victim.

Aaaaand can that one open the cage, or does she need one on the outside. Or, like, is it small enough to fit through the bars.

It can in fact get an arm through the bars and unbar the cage door!