Valid to hug. "I'm going to call Ren," he tells Cricket his phone but it is functional that Cricket can hear him say it. He maneuvers Lucy over to the couch and - has to have Cricket leave Ren a message, because he can't be having with that at the moment, but then they can be set up on the couch all three with Cricket purring on an unoccupied Haru location and continuing to explain Better Off Ted.

...Comfy thing is extremely comfy, but after a little while of this she gets bored anyway and attempts to steal his phone.

How about she have her phone instead.

Oh, cool, that works. 

If he pays attention to her phone usage, he may notice that she is capable of using language--on a couple of different occasions, she goes into her notes to write things down, and at one point she ends up reading an article about geology.

Huh.

What if... he sends her a text.

You're having an esper awakening.

...Hm. Her phone is spontaneously generating text at her. That...feels like a thing that can happen? But there's context about it that she's missing right now? 

She's sort of baffled by the second-person pronoun--"you" implies the existence of persons outside the self--but--

Esper Awakening. She recognizes that phrase; it means getting superpowers. Which is great! But also very unlikely. She does feel sort of disoriented right now, but awakening is supposed to be worse than this? Probably? Hmmmmmm.

Well, it takes a week. She remembers that. So no reason to worry about it until then. 

...well, she read it, so that's good. He'll text her mom: It seems like she can read; something other than language, per se, is not functioning right now, but she might get ~anything out of receiving texts.

Good to know, thank you.

She tries texting Lucy:

I love you. How are you doing?

Gibberish. She goes back to her article.

Will Lucy let him get up?

Well, she won't let go, but she has classified him as a moving object and will move with him rather than attempting to keep him in place.

...yeah, okay, she can accompany him to his bookshelf and he will try handing her a book. How's about, say, The Hobbit.

She opens it to try to read it, immediately trips over the assumption that Bilbo being a person who takes actions is a coherent concept, and puts it down disinterestedly. 

Huh. Book of sonnets?

She recognizes poems as discrete works, so when she gets baffled by one she moves on to the next instead of putting the book down. 

Most of them are romantic to some degree, but the ones that are more abstracted hold her interest longer; anything that strongly and directly talks about people gets her to skip to the next one immediately. 

Haru comments on this out loud by virtue of the combination of speech to text + Cricket. Texts Lucy's mom - does her name pop up? - She'll page through a book of Shakespeare sonnets but I'm not yet sure what the pattern is for which she'll keep reading and which she skips past. Back downstairs and he's going to get Cricket's sashimi out for him and fix some instant ramen, Lucy seems like she'll be able to eat instant ramen.

Lucy's mom's name is Lavinia Wayne. 

Instead of waiting for instant ramen, Lucy grabs an apple. She is totally able to eat it. 

She can have an apple, he will not begrduge her. "It'll be interesting to find out if she thinks to throw the core away like this," Haru remarks to Cricket. The first ramen beeps, does she seem intrigued by it now that it smells nice and stuff?

Oh, cool, instant ramen has come to be in edible form without her having to do anything about it! Nice!

She looks around for a compost bucket. If she doesn't find one she'll leave the apple core on the counter. 

What if Haru pulls open the drawer that has the trash in it?

Nope! Produce waste goes in compost buckets. She can pull a compost bucket together later if the apple core is on the counter, but if it goes in the trash, it won't get composted!

Huh. He closes the drawer again. Makes a second ramen.

She eyes his ramen speculatively once she's done with hers, but decides she isn't hungry right now. 

Fork goes in sink and empty ramen cup goes in trash. 

What if he opens the dishwasher?

She'll put the fork in the dishwasher, sure. After rinsing it briefly in the sink.