Which he narrates to Cricket so he'll have a written record of it to sort out later. Time for him to eat ramen while being snuggled. Can she at least be maneuvered onto his left?

Sure why not. 

Then he and Cricket will speculate about her condition throughout lunch! Does she keep reading the sonnets?

She'll keep struggling through them but she's becoming increasingly annoyed by the incomprehensibleness of it all. 

He tells Cricket Plus Phone which ones she skips and which ones she seems to process and when she eventually gives up on the book he'll send this (disclaimed as being unedited text to speech) to her mom in case she's got any insight. And also to make it less conspicuous that there is nothing but him stopping him from taking advantage of her backlashed daughter. He will just give that alternate universe asshole her mother might be worried about very little space to hide in.

Lavinia thanks him for the info and looks up the sonnets so she can try to put together a pattern. The ones Lucy is having less problems with have more...nature...in them?

If when he's done with his ramen he opens the back door does she wanna be outside or nah?

Nope. Indoors is comfier, plus if they go outdoors the comfy flying thing might randomly fly off again, and there's no reason to expect that if that happened the next place it lands her will have, like, food. 

Inside it is. He shuts the door.

Back to the couch. Cricket runs out of Better Off Ted content and starts instead talking about the latest from Bollywood.

If comfy thing is insistent on going back to Couch this is acceptable. But if it is amenable to being guided, she will go back to the bookshelf. 

- yes, sure, he's curious where she's going with this! Does she want to exchange the sonnets for something?

Yep! She shifts her clinging to free up a hand, and run those fingers over the spines; when she sees a title she can comprehend, she pulls it out and checks the back, and once she finds one where she can comprehend the entire blurb on the back she will go couch. 

Haru's mostly got classic novels! And a couple reviewer copies of books about dungeons. What's she going to land on here?

Oh, let's go with a dungeon book. People are divided enough on whether dungeons have agency that she can comprehend them while assuming that agency doesn't exist.

She put the poems back on the shelf (instead of leaving it lying around; she put an apple core on the counter) and picked up a nonfiction book instead. Couch now?

Couch now!

Was there somewhere for compost?

Lavinia asks. 

No, I guess maybe she wouldn't settle for a trash can?

Maybe. If it were at home she might leave something on the counter briefly if the compost bucket wasn't there because someone was taking it out...

"Cricket, can you check if she minds if you trash her core?"

The drawer has an extra pull attached at the bottom specifically for Cricket. He pulls it open, then hops up onto the counter and bats the core in.

--Well that's not ideal but not really worth attempting to prevent. 

I had my cat (Cricket) throw it away and she looked consternated but not upset or moved to intervene.

I don't know what that means, sorry.

Perturbed? Like it bothered her a bit.

--Sorry, I mean, I'm not immediately able to interpret that behavior, not, I need a dictionary.