Lucy was relatively lucky; she had her phone in her hand when the dungeon grabbed her. This is lucky because both of her hands are webbed far enough away from her pockets that there is otherwise no chance she would have been able to reach it.

She almost dropped her phone three times, getting it into camera mode, turning it to video, and starting recording, all one-handed, but after that her biggest problem was trying to follow individual spider monsters while not having a great angle to see the screen from.

Probably the correct thing to say is “Thank you, how can I be as convenient as possible,” but what instead comes out is, “Holy shit, you’re Traceless.”

"- yes, that's me! Esper fan?" he asks. "Wow, you have your phone on you, do you want me to pocket that on the way out?" He starts unrolling more butcher paper.

“Yeah, at this point the risk of losing what I’ve got outweighs the possibility of getting just a little more video—I read your blog. Yelling About Basic Research is brilliant.”

"- oh, thank you kindly!" He accepts the phone, pauses the recording, and pockets it. Butcher paper butcher paper. "Is that why you were taking video? Doing some of your own basic research as long as you're in here?" When she's all wrapped up the butcher paper goes back in its tube holster and he pulls a pair of scissors. "Gonna get you snipped off here, won't let you fall."

“Yeah, exactly! I mean, it’s just a phone camera, but it’s still data.”

She holds still so as to not make him make a mistake but she’s not afraid of heights qua heights, it was several other aspects of this dungeon that freaked her out!

"I'm usually working with a phone camera too! They've gotten decent especially if you have to trade off against bulkiness at all." Snip, and now she in her butcher paper roll is in his arms.

“I have no idea how good my phone camera is but I was not optimizing for the phone with the fanciest camera because I did not expect to end up in a dungeon.”

"It's not a very expectable event." He makes sure she's securely held and then hops off the butcher-papered bit of web to fly back down between bits of webbing toward the portal. Fortunately the spiders don't see amazingly; if they don't touch the web, and they won't, they're unlikely to take exception to their victim flying away. "It's pretty dim in here, I've been getting candids of the spiders with flash on."

“If I didn’t get anything usable at all I will be pissed.”

"It's not pitch dark, I'm sure you got something!"

“Good. —Oh, crap, I think I have not actually said thanks for the rescue yet—“

"I think it's implied though also it would be valid if you didn't find yourself in a particularly thankful mood."

“I mean today is not my favorite day but you’re Traceless, if nothing else I could tack the dungeon-gratitude onto the gratitude for your entire deal? Research-wise, I mean, I am not—usually—specifically grateful for your particular powerset.”

"I appreciate that! Would I know you from the comment section or do you lurk?"

“I’m fiat-lucy.”

"Oh sounds familiar - I'm going to get the details wrong, forgive me, but you like, volunteer for DDSI or something?"

“Yeah! I want to work there after college but if I can’t, just continuing to volunteer is fine.”

"Sweet. What arm of their work are you into?"

“Right now I’m doing some basic phone bank stuff, but I’m studying data science, so I expect to do more of that later.”

"Is there a specific hypothesis you're keen on investigating?"

“I don’t know about hypothesis but I’m very into the question of dungeon intelligence? And monster intelligence, obviously. I like your cat.”

"You say that but you haven't met him. I started writing up a 'Cricket answers frequently asked questions' post but it was too incendiary to post."

“He may be verbally incendiary but he’s perfectly capable of coexisting with humanity! He’s a person and he’s a dungeon monster and he gets to be okay, that’s so important!!!”

"I love him very much and it is so important that he is a person and I'm going to grab a couple of these spiders, if we can find the core, see about them too."

She does not bounce because this would be a horrible fucking time to bounce but she experiences Bouncy Emotions.

”If that goes well, you can tell them no hard feelings from me specifically.”