"No problem. Though tonight I think the dinner plan was for Ren to make spaghetti and you can just not have meatballs on yours."

"That sounds fine."  Spaghetti is most likely to be what, instead.  Brains?  No, that's dumb.  Nerves?

"If you didn't sleep well last night do you want to try sleeping in the same bed tonight and see if that helps?"

"...Yeah, that seems.  Like the thing to be done."

"I know it's awkward but even if we had ranged compatibility that'd still imply same-bed."

"- We don't have to if you don't want to."

"I'm fine with it and moreover at this moment fully in my right mind, I'm trying to be careful with you."

"Oh-kay.  ....Does this also apply to kissing, or are you very straight or something."

"Uh, I'm also being careful about that but speaking in terms of demographic facts I'm gay."

"Okay, that was really unclear."

"It was unclear that I'm gay? It didn't come up but it's like, on my website, it's not a secret."

"It was unclear whether you were being careful about kissing things or if you really didn't want to.  For yourself."

"In general I am your standard issue slutty esper but you're in the middle of hellweek and you've got psychological backlash."

"Yes I got that part."

"Does any confusion remain?"

"Not... about this.... that I remember having noticed."

"Okay, good."

Julien downs the rest of the orange juice, then inches back over next to Haru.  ...He still has the cup.  Why did he not get rid of the cup before resuming cuddling.  Now what.

"You wanna pass me the cup and I'll put it on the end table?"

Nod.  Pass.  Carefully resting his head on Haru's shoulder.

Holding very still. "Would anything about this situation be less stressful if I were less perceptible?"

"- Maybe."

"...I ask because that's one of my powers, I can be selectively imperceptible. I don't actually know if I can conceal the feeling of guiding but usually that's not desirable anyway, and I can be invisible, inaudible - while you were asleep I needed to move so I went un-feelable for a second and when that didn't wake you up I shifted."

"Oh!  You can do that."  Apparently.

"Yeah, it's that and throwing off psychic effects and flying."